Re: complex "search_s" filter

[Gene Yu <ge...@si...>]

Timothy,

The filter you're looking for would look like this:

	(&(objectclass=person)(sn=Wilson))

You'll have to sort the results in Python.

Gene


On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Timothy Wilson wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm making good progress implementing Jeffrey Shell's ZLDAP product. I've
> got it printing an employee directory using data from our NDS server. I've
> read David Leonard's "Python LDAP Module Reference," but there are a couple
> things I don't understand.
> 
> 1. What's the syntax for doing more complex filtering of search results in a
> "search_s" operation. I saw the reference to BNF in David's docs, and I had
> to look up what BNF meant. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to figure out
> how to filter my searches for two different attribute variables
> simultaneously. Would someone be kind enough to provide a couple concrete
> examples. Here's the type of thing I'm looking for:
> 
> Filter for --> objectclass=person AND sn=Wilson
> 
> It looks like once I understand the "and," the "or" and "not" should be
> obvious.
> 
> 2. Is there any way to sort the results of the search other than doing a
> separate python operation of the search result. (I haven't tried it, but I
> assume you could have python sort the results.)
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help. I think I'm going to be using python-ldap
> quite a bit.
> 
> -Tim
> 
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