From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2006-08-17T09:07:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::LDAP 0.0.4 filter warnings

On 8/16/06, barjunk <barjunk@attglobal.net> wrote:
> I'm writing some new code and using #!/usr/bin/ruby -w as the bang line
> in the script.
>
> The code looks like:
>
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'net/ldap'
>
> <snip>
>
> filter = Net::LDAP::Filter.eq( "key","value" )
> ldap.search (:base =>treebase, :filter => filter)
>
> <snip>
>
> I get:
>
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ruby-net-ldap-0.0.4/lib/net/ldap/filter.rb:310:
> warning: ambiguous first argument; put parentheses or even spaces
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ruby-net-ldap-0.0.4/lib/net/ldap/filter.rb:311:
> warning: ambiguous first argument; put parentheses or even spaces
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ruby-net-ldap-0.0.4/lib/net/ldap/filter.rb:324:
> warning: ambiguous first argument; put parentheses or even spaces
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ruby-net-ldap-0.0.4/lib/net/ldap/filter.rb:338:
> warning: ambiguous first argument; put parentheses or even spaces
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ruby-net-ldap-0.0.4/lib/net/ldap/filter.rb:356:
> warning: ambiguous first argument; put parentheses or even spaces
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ruby-net-ldap-0.0.4/lib/net/ldap/filter.rb:358:
> warning: ambiguous first argument; put parentheses or even spaces
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ruby-net-ldap-0.0.4/lib/net/ldap/filter.rb:360:
> warning: ambiguous first argument; put parentheses or even spaces
>
>
> These warnings occurs after the filter line but before the search line.
>
> This looks like it is at the lines that have:
>
> scanner.scan <someregex>
>
> What needs to be done to make those warnings go away?
>
> Mike B.
>
>
>

I can't get those warnings to appear, and I tried all kinds of ways.
Also, they occur in a code path that is not exercised by your code
sample. Can you send me a whole program that exhibits the flaw?
(Private email is fine.)