[sprog-users] Announce: LDIF to Record

[Chris B. <ch...@je...>]

Hi all,

This is the initial public release of a Gear to turn LDIF stanzas (as
produced by e.g. OpenLDAP's ldapsearch) into records.

It depends on Sprog::Gear::InputByPara to read \n\n-delimited stanzas.

Available from http://jesmond.demon.co.uk/Sprog/

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NAME
       Sprog::Gear::LdifToRecord - parses an LDIF stream into records

DESCRIPTION
       This gear parses an LDIF stream into records.  Records should be sepa-
       rated by a blank line.  This module assumes that the attribute names
       are separated from the value by ': '.  The attributes of the entry are
       parsed into keys in the the hash record.

       Multi-valued attributes are stored in an array-reference which can be
       used in the Template gear like other template array variables:

               Alternate addresses: [%  mailAlternateAddress.join %]
               [% FOREACH m IN mailAlternateAddress %]
               Alternate address: [% m; END %]
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A useful combination is:

Text Input (with the string to search for)
->	Find and Replace (s/\s*$/\n/)	# to ensure the string ends in \n
->	Run Filter Command (ldapsearch -LLLx -f- 'cn=%s')
->	LDIF to Record
->	Apply Template ([% attributes %])
->	Text Window

Best wishes
-- 
Chris Benson