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Searching for Attributes with the same name
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| Hi
I'm attempting to search through a ldap entry and display all it's
attributes. Some of the attributes may have the same name but the code
that I'm using does only displays one of them.
$mesg = $ldap->search(filter=>"(uid=xyz)", base=>$base);
@entries = $mesg->entries;
foreach $entry (@entries) {
foreach $attr ($entry->attributes) {
print $attr." - ".$entry->get_value($attr)."\n";
}
}
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks
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| Chris Ridd 2006-10-13, 7:04 pm |
| On 13/10/06 11:43, Y-Man <wcheung.groups@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm attempting to search through a ldap entry and display all it's
> attributes. Some of the attributes may have the same name but the code
> that I'm using does only displays one of them.
>
>
> $mesg = $ldap->search(filter=>"(uid=xyz)", base=>$base);
> @entries = $mesg->entries;
>
> foreach $entry (@entries) {
>
> foreach $attr ($entry->attributes) {
> print $attr." - ".$entry->get_value($attr)."\n";
> }
> }
>
> Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
>
If called in a scalar context, get_value only returns one of the attribute's
values. Call it in a list context instead, so you have three nested loops:
foreach $entry (@entries) {
foreach $attr ($entry->attributes) {
foreach $val (@{$entry->get_value($attr)}) {
print "$attr - $val\n";
}
}
}
As I'm only testing in my mail client, I can't be sure if you absolutely
need the @{ and } around the call to get_value. But it forces list context,
so ought to work.
Cheers,
Chris
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| Chris Ridd 2006-10-13, 7:04 pm |
| On 13/10/06 6:57, Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> wrote:
> On 13/10/06 11:43, Y-Man <wcheung.groups@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
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> If called in a scalar context, get_value only returns one of the attribute's
> values. Call it in a list context instead, so you have three nested loops:
>
> foreach $entry (@entries) {
> foreach $attr ($entry->attributes) {
> foreach $val (@{$entry->get_value($attr)}) {
> print "$attr - $val\n";
> }
> }
> }
>
> As I'm only testing in my mail client, I can't be sure if you absolutely
> need the @{ and } around the call to get_value. But it forces list context,
> so ought to work.
As Graham has just pointed out, that's wrong. I was possibly thinking of
array refs. The innermost loop should just be:
foreach $val ($entry->get_value($attr)) {
print "$attr - $val\n";
}
Cheers,
Chris
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