Hi all,
I've finally fixed most of the outstanding PerLDAP bugs, as well as adding a few missing features, and I'm ready to release this soon. As such, I've created a first beta release, which you can download via FTP from
ftp://ftp.ogre.com/pub/perldap/perldap-1.5b1.tar.gz
(the source is in the devel-branch-1_4_2 branch in CVS).
There are numerous changes made here, in particular:
- Support for latest Mozilla and Sun C-SDK (v5.x)
- Now defaults to LDAP v3 protocol, but you can downgrade to v2 easily
- Fully support Perl 5.005 and later
- Added "hash" style prototypes to all class methods that takes more
than one argument
New functionality -----------------
Conn.pm:
* setVersion() - Set the LDAP protocol version
* getVersion() - Get the current LDAP protocol in use
* installNSPR() - Make the connection use NSPR I/O etc.
* setNSPRTimeout() - Set the connection timeout, in msAPI.xs:
* Added support for prldap_install_routines().The documentation has not been fully updated yet, the one thing missing from the docs is that most of the Conn methods now take "hash" style arguments. For instance
$entry = $conn->search({ base => $ld{root},
scope => $ld{scope},
filter => $search,
sortattrs => ["objectclass"],
cmp => sub { return $_[0] cmp $_[1]; }
});I have only tested this on Linux and Solaris, using the 5.x LDAP C-SDK. If you are still using PerLDAP, I would really appreciate if you:
1) Test this release, and report bugs (either file a bug through Bugzilla, post here, or email me). Porting to more platforms would be good.
2) Fix whatever is broken! :-)
3) And finally, I'd love to hear if there's still interest in a Perl API wrapper on top of the C-SDK. If there is, I will probably head up a new project building a new extention on top of C-SDK using SWIG. FWIW, a very informal test of PerLDAP vs the native Perl LDAP APIs is that the C-SDK is at least a magnitude faster.
In any case, comments and discussions are welcome! Rich Megginson has showed interest in continuing "scripting" language support for the C-SDK, so maybe this time we can actually create a real team. :-)
Cheers,
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