python-ldap-dev

Specifying max. search hits

[Michael <mic...@in...>]

HI!

I would like to specify the maximum number of hits returned by a
search call. Is this possible with the _ldap module? I could not
find something in the docs.

Ciao, Michael.

Re: Specifying max. search hits

[David L. <le...@cs...>]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Michael Ströder wrote:

> I would like to specify the maximum number of hits returned by a
> search call. Is this possible with the _ldap module? I could not
> find something in the docs.

hmm.. i don't know if the LDAP protocol allows limiting the server from
finding >n results, but you could pull results out one at a time by
using  the asynchronous calls

	l = _ldap.open(...)
	id = l.search(...blah..blah..)
	for num in range(10):
		res = l.result(id, 0)
		print "Got one result", `res`
	
but i'm a bit rusty on this.

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Re: Specifying max. search hits

[Michael <mic...@in...>]

David Leonard wrote:
> 
>         l = _ldap.open(...)
>         id = l.search(...blah..blah..)
>         for num in range(10):
>                 res = l.result(id, 0)
>                 print "Got one result", `res`

Does this always return exactly one result? Or might there be more
than one entries in the result res?

Ciao, Michael.

Re: Specifying max. search hits

[David L. <dav...@cs...>]

On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Michael Ströder raved thusly:

> David Leonard wrote:
> > 
> >         l = _ldap.open(...)
> >         id = l.search(...blah..blah..)
> >         for num in range(10):
> >                 res = l.result(id, 0)
> >                 print "Got one result", `res`
> 
> Does this always return exactly one result? Or might there be more
> than one entries in the result res?

Yes, that's what the 0 ('all') argument is for.

Print its docstring.

"\tThe all parameter only has meaning for search() responses\n"
"\tand is used to select whether a single entry of the search\n"
"\tresponse should be returned, or to wait for all the results\n"
"\tof the search before returning.\n"

by the way your last sentence has an interesting parse:
> Or might there be ( more than one ) entries in the result res?

d

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