From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2007-06-28T01:19:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::LDAP and telephonenumber attribute

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On 6/26/07, pearly <michael_perle@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Using the LDAP service of a Lotus Notes / Domino server, I cannot
> get the telephone attribute for people. Sad it is but Lotus like M$
> call it telephonenumber. I use 'net/ldap' for this which works fine
> for
> other attributes. Net::LDAP#search delivers an Array of
> Net::LDAP::Entry objects, and I can call attributes like the
> following simplified example shows:
>
> ldap.search( :base => base, :filter => ldap_filter ) do |entry|
>   puts "DN: #{entry.dn}  Name: #{entry.givenname} #{entry.sn}"
> end
>
> Now, it looks like the telephonenumber attribute is not delivered.
> Having done a simillar application in Perl (using Net::LDAP) which
> still works with the same LDAP server and parameters, I know the
> attribute should be there. But the following results in a
> NoMethodError exception.
>
> ldap.search( :base => base, :filter => ldap_filter ) do |entry|
>   puts "Phone: #{entry.telephonenumber}"
> end
>
> Using entry.telephone doesn't help, and adding the attribute
> list to the Net::LDAP#search (e.g. [:dn, :sn, :telephonenumber])
> doesn't help.
>
> Btw: In the above code block I tried entry.methods.sort
> and was really surprised it did not show things like 'dn' or
> 'mail' as its methods; however they are working.
>
> Any idea how to get this telephonenumber attribute?
>
> MP
>
>
>

What happens if you use Net::LDAP::Entry#each to dump out all of the
attributes that were returned from the server?

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