Re: LDAP.pm

On 8/9/04 2:06 am, Eddie C. Pagaduan Jr. <eddie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Mr. Graham Barr,
>  
> I am currently using your LDAP.pm perl module.
> I would like to perform LDAP searches on scope='sub' and
> deref=>'always'.
> But it looks like these cannot be modified.
>  
> I ran an Ethereal trace and noticed that the scope is always set to
> 'base' and deref is always set to 'find'.
> I looked in LDAP.pm and noticed that these paramaters are hard-coded.

Default values are hardcoded, which are then overridden from parameters
passed to the search method.

--- LDAP.pm 0.32 ---
  my %stash = (
    baseObject   => ref($base) ? $base->dn : $base,
    scope        => 2,
    derefAliases => 2,
    sizeLimit    => $arg->{sizelimit} || 0,
    timeLimit    => $arg->{timelimit} || 0,
    typesOnly    => $arg->{typesonly} || $arg->{attrsonly} || 0,
    filter       => $filter,
    attributes   => $arg->{attrs} || []
  );

  if (exists $arg->{scope}) {
    my $sc = lc $arg->{scope};
    $stash{scope} = 0 + (exists $scope{$sc} ? $scope{$sc} : $sc);
  }

  if (exists $arg->{deref}) {
    my $dr = lc $arg->{deref};
    $stash{derefAliases} = 0 + (exists $deref{$dr} ? $deref{$dr} : $dr);
  }
---
> Is there a reason why it was coded so that these parameters cannot be
> modified?
> For Example, will it break if I changed LDAP.pm to allow LDAP searches
> with:
>     scope=>'sub'
>     deref=>'always'

I think you'd be changing something that isn't a bug :-)

>  
> Thanks,
> Eddie Pagaduan
>  
> 

Cheers,

Chris