I've spent the past few days rooting around the openldap site. I am developing currently on Debian lenny using the libldap2-dev package. My small goal is to try and write my own rootdse program to better understand the lib. I am stuck on one piece of code. I have no idea where to get an LDIF library to parse/write ldif files.
Can anyone point me in the right direction on this? It's been a long time since I was coding in C and it took me a while just to gather that I needed -lldap to make what I have work.
I believe this is the only piece I'm missing, the LDAP library calls work flawlessly. I also did learn that many of the depreciated functions are still documented as valid functions (ldap_get_values, ldap_count_values, ldap_value_free). I couldn't find anything that replaced these..
Many thanks Eric
Eric Nichols wrote:
I've spent the past few days rooting around the openldap site. I am developing currently on Debian lenny using the libldap2-dev package. My small goal is to try and write my own rootdse program to better understand the lib. I am stuck on one piece of code. I have no idea where to get an LDIF library to parse/write ldif files.
Can anyone point me in the right direction on this? It's been a long time since I was coding in C and it took me a while just to gather that I needed -lldap to make what I have work.
I believe this is the only piece I'm missing, the LDAP library calls work flawlessly. I also did learn that many of the depreciated functions are still documented as valid functions (ldap_get_values, ldap_count_values, ldap_value_free). I couldn't find anything that replaced these..
There is no complete library for LDIF parsing in OpenLDAP; probably there needs to be one. You should just copy the code in clients/tools/ldapmodify.c in the meantime. And you should read clients/tools/ldapsearch.c, regarding the other functions you mentioned.
Ok the light bulb came on and I think I've figured out most of the standard library (ldap.h) functions. I misspoke about some of the depreciated functions. My library was not compiled correctly.
Now I am moving on to trying to read/write ldif files. ldif.c has everything I need. However there are some odd includes: #include <ac/stdlib.h> #include <ac/ctype.h>
#include <ac/string.h> #include <ac/socket.h> #include <ac/time.h>
Can these be converted to <stdlib.h> instead of <ac/stdlib.h>? I'd like to pull the minimal amount of code from the distribution to include in my code. Ultimately I'd love to see a standard ldif lib much like the ldap lib.
Can anyone assist? I am just starting into gcc and c and am a bit rusty. To someone experienced I would think it could be extracted rather quickly. Thanks Eric
Howard Chu wrote:
Eric Nichols wrote:
I've spent the past few days rooting around the openldap site. I am developing currently on Debian lenny using the libldap2-dev package. My small goal is to try and write my own rootdse program to better understand the lib. I am stuck on one piece of code. I have no idea where to get an LDIF library to parse/write ldif files.
Can anyone point me in the right direction on this? It's been a long time since I was coding in C and it took me a while just to gather that I needed -lldap to make what I have work.
I believe this is the only piece I'm missing, the LDAP library calls work flawlessly. I also did learn that many of the depreciated functions are still documented as valid functions (ldap_get_values, ldap_count_values, ldap_value_free). I couldn't find anything that replaced these..
There is no complete library for LDIF parsing in OpenLDAP; probably there needs to be one. You should just copy the code in clients/tools/ldapmodify.c in the meantime. And you should read clients/tools/ldapsearch.c, regarding the other functions you mentioned.
Eric Nichols wrote:
Ok the light bulb came on and I think I've figured out most of the standard library (ldap.h) functions. I misspoke about some of the depreciated functions. My library was not compiled correctly.
Now I am moving on to trying to read/write ldif files. ldif.c has everything I need. However there are some odd includes: #include <ac/stdlib.h> #include <ac/ctype.h>
#include <ac/string.h> #include <ac/socket.h> #include <ac/time.h>
Can these be converted to <stdlib.h> instead of <ac/stdlib.h>? I'd like to pull the minimal amount of code from the distribution to include in my code. Ultimately I'd love to see a standard ldif lib much like the ldap lib.
Can anyone assist? I am just starting into gcc and c and am a bit rusty. To someone experienced I would think it could be extracted rather quickly.
Probably not quickly enough for you, but here it is anyway: http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Incoming?id=6194
Thanks Eric
Howard Chu wrote:
Eric Nichols wrote:
I've spent the past few days rooting around the openldap site. I am developing currently on Debian lenny using the libldap2-dev package. My small goal is to try and write my own rootdse program to better understand the lib. I am stuck on one piece of code. I have no idea where to get an LDIF library to parse/write ldif files.
Can anyone point me in the right direction on this? It's been a long time since I was coding in C and it took me a while just to gather that I needed -lldap to make what I have work.
I believe this is the only piece I'm missing, the LDAP library calls work flawlessly. I also did learn that many of the depreciated functions are still documented as valid functions (ldap_get_values, ldap_count_values, ldap_value_free). I couldn't find anything that replaced these..
There is no complete library for LDIF parsing in OpenLDAP; probably there needs to be one. You should just copy the code in clients/tools/ldapmodify.c in the meantime. And you should read clients/tools/ldapsearch.c, regarding the other functions you mentioned.
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