Re: Net::LDAP::Entry & multivalued attribute

[Chris R. <chr...@me...>]

On 24/6/02 10:44 pm, Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues <an...@es...>
wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to delete a specific value from an attribute's list of
> values, but if I understood the man page correctly, it looks like
> Net::LDAP::Entry doesn't support it directly...
> 
> Should I do something like
> 
> @values = $entry->get_value('foo');
> $entry->delete('foo');
> @values = grep { ! /^bar$/ } @values;
> $entry->add(foo => \@values);

We changed the documentation recently in CVS to describe the delete method
more clearly.

To delete an entire attribute:

$ldap->delete( 'foo' )

That's just syntactic sugar though. More generally you can do this to delete
an entire attribute:

$ldap->delete( 'foo' => [ ] )

To delete one value of an attribute:

$ldap->delete( 'bar' => [ 'delete me' ] )

You can have combinations of the more general cases:

$ldap->delete( 'foo' => [ ],
               'bar' => [ 'delete me' ])

Cheers,

Chris