From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2007-08-23T00:54:56+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-ldap and paged results on windows

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On 8/22/07, dave@davewking.com <dave@davewking.com> wrote:
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> So it looks like my problems may be bigger than undefined constants.  I've
> also been looking at Net::LDAP as well, the only problem I've found there
> is that it doesn't parse my ldap filters right so I have to rewrite them
> in the Net::LDAP way.  For example this filter works fine in ruby-ldap
>
> (&(samaccounttype=805306368)(|(lastLogonTimestamp<=128231111837280000)(&(!(lastLogonTimestamp=*)(whenCreated<=
> 20070522000000.0Z)))))
>
> but in Net::LDAP it gives me this error
>
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ruby-net-ldap-0.0.4
> /lib/net/ldap/filter.rb:302:in
> `initialize': invalid filter syntax (Net::LDAP::LdapError)
>
> when i run it like this
>
> filter =
> Net::LDAP::Filter.construct
> ("(&(samaccounttype=805306368)(|(lastLogonTimestamp<=128231111837280000)(&(!(lastLogonTimestamp=*)(whenCreated<=
> 20070522000000.0Z)))))")
>
> I can rewrite my stuff to use the Net::LDAP filters, but it would be nice
> to just use the ldap filter string.
>
>
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I can help you debug this. The only thing I can see offhand that is weird is
the Zulu timestring. You can help me by taking each of the individual
branches in your filter, without the &s and the !, and just run them one by
one through Net::LDAP::Filter.construct till you find the one that breaks.

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