Re: [Fwd] Documentation for Net::LDAP::Extension

[Darryl C P. <da...@co...>]

Does anyone have a practical example of how this is ued? 

---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 15:28:34 +0100
>From: Graham Barr <gb...@po...>  
>Subject: Re: [Fwd] Documentation for Net::LDAP::Extension  
>To: LDAP Mailing List <per...@li...>, Darryl C Price 
<da...@co...>
>
>Currently Net::LDAP only gives a skeleton access to the extended operation.
>
>You must encode the value yourself and pass in with
>
>  $mesg = $ldap->extension( name => $oid, value => $value);
>
>Then you can call
>
>  $mesg->response_name
>  $mesg->response
>
>to get the names and value of the response.
>
>The intent is that as "standard" extensions get defined we would define
>classes for them so that you could do
>
>  $mesg = $ldap->extension( type => 'set-password', ... args for set 
password );
>
>And the class of the object returned will be a sub-class of 
Net::LDAP::Extension
>with methods that are of use to 'set-password'. We could even go as far as
>
>  use Net::LDAP::Extension qw(set_password);
>
>  $mesg = $ldap->set_password( ... );
>
>Graham.
>
>On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 03:17:27PM +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
>> ----- Forwarded message from Darryl C Price <da...@co...> -----
>> 
>> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 10:13:12 -0400
>> To: gb...@po...
>> From: Darryl C Price <da...@co...>
>> Subject: Documentation for Net::LDAP::Extension
>> 
>> Hello Graham,
>> 
>> I am trying to figure out how to use the set-password ldapv3 extension but 
>> can't find the documentation for Net::LDAP::Extension or any examples.  
Your 
>> help would be greatly appreciated.
>> 
Darryl C Price
Conversant Systems, LLC
Email:  da...@co...
Phone:  (513)768-3120
Mobile: (513)225-8528
Web:    http://www.convsys.com