Net::LDAP::LDIF(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Net::LDAP::LDIF(3)NAMENet::LDAP::LDIF - LDIF reading and writing
SYNOPSIS
use Net::LDAP::LDIF;
$ldif = Net::LDAP::LDIF->new( "file.ldif", "r", onerror => 'undef' );
while( not $ldif->eof ( ) ) {
$entry = $ldif->read_entry ( );
if ( $ldif->error ( ) ) {
print "Error msg: ", $ldif->error ( ), "\n";
print "Error lines:\n", $ldif->error_lines ( ), "\n";
} else {
# do stuff
}
}
$ldif->done ( );
DESCRIPTIONNet::LDAP::LDIF provides a means to convert between Net::LDAP::Entry
objects and LDAP entries represented in LDIF format files. Reading and
writing are supported and may manipulate single entries or lists of
entries.
As when reading an entire file into memory with perl normally, take
into account the possibility of memory use when loading an LDIF file in
one go.
CONSTRUCTOR
new ( FILE )
Open the file read-only. "FILE" may be the name of a file or an
already open filehandle. If "FILE" begins or ends with a "⎪" then
"FILE" will be passed directly to "open".
new ( FILE, MODE, OPTIONS )
Open the file with the given "MODE", eg "w" or "a". "FILE" may be
the name of a file or an already open filehandle. If "FILE" begins
or ends with a "⎪" then "FILE" will be passed directly to "open".
encode => 'none' ⎪ 'canonical' ⎪ 'base64'
Some DN values in LDIF cannot be written verbatim and have to
be encoded in some way:
'none'
The default.
'canonical'
See "canonical_dn" in Net::LDAP::Util.
'base64'
Use base64.
onerror => 'die' ⎪ 'warn' ⎪ undef
Specify what happens when an error is detected.
'die'
"Net::LDAP::LDIF" will croak with an appropriate message.
'warn'
"Net::LDAP::LDIF" will warn with an appropriate message.
undef
"Net::LDAP::LDIF" will warn with an appropriate message if
"-w" is in effect. The method that was called will return
"undef".
change => 1
Write entry changes to the LDIF file instead of the entries
itself. I.e. write LDAP operations acting on the entries to
the file instead of the entries contents.
lowercase => 1
Convert attribute names to lowercase when writing.
sort => 1
Sort attribute names when writing entries according to the
rule: objectclass first then all other attributes alphabeti‐
cally sorted
version => '1'
Set the LDIF version to write to the resulting LDIF file.
According to RFC 2849 currently the only legal value for this
option is 1.
When this option is set Net::LDAP::LDIF tries to adhere more
strictly to the LDIF specification in RFC2489 in a few places.
The default is undef meaning no version information is written
to the LDIF file.
wrap => 78
Number of columns where output line wrapping shall occur.
Default is 78. Setting it to 40 or lower inhibits wrapping.
raw => REGEX
Use REGEX to denote the names of attributes that are to be con‐
sidered binary in search results.
When running on Perl 5.8 and this option is given Net::LDAP
converts all values of attributes not matching this REGEX into
Perl UTF-8 strings so that the regular Perl operators (pattern
matching, ...) can operate as one expects even on strings with
international characters.
If this option is not given or the version of Perl Net::LDAP is
running on is too old strings are encodeed the same as in ear‐
lier versions of perl-ldap.
Example: raw => qr/(?i:^jpegPhoto⎪;binary)/
METHODS
read_entry ( )
Read one entry from the file and return it as a "Net::LDAP::Entry"
object.
eof ( )
Returns true when the end of the file is reached.
write_entry ( ENTRIES )
Write the entries to the LDIF file.
write_version ( )
If the object's version is defined, this method allows to
explicitely write the version before an entry is written.
If not called explicitely, it gets called automatically when writ‐
ing the first entry.
version ( [ VERSION ] )
If called without arguments it returns the version of the LDIF file
or undef if no version has been set. If called with an argument it
sets the LDIF version to VERSION.
According to RFC 2849 currently the only legal value for VERSION is
1.
handle ( )
Returns the file handle the "Net::LDAP::LDIF" object reads from or
writes to.
done ( )
This method signals that the LDIF object is no longer needed. If a
file was opened automatically when the object was created it will
be closed. This method is called automatically via DESTROY when the
object goes out of scope.
error ( )
Returns error message if error was found.
error_lines ( )
Returns lines that resulted in error.
current_entry ( )
Returns the current "Net::LDAP::Entry" object.
current_lines ( )
Returns the lines that generated the current "Net::LDAP::Entry"
object.
next_lines ( )
Returns the lines that will generate the next "Net::LDAP::Entry"
object.
AUTHOR
Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>.
Please report any bugs, or post any suggestions, to the perl-ldap mail‐
ing list <perl-ldap@perl.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1997-2004 Graham Barr. All rights reserved. This program
is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
same terms as Perl itself.
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