From: Cere Davis <cere@...>
Date: 2003-07-16T14:25:30+09:00
Subject: ldap with ruby confusion


I have this piece of code that I modified based on search.rb in the ldap 
package for Ruby.

Something isn't working correctly with this code but I cannot find a way 
to get the code to jsut printt regular ldap output instead of only 
printing hashes or error messages when an exception is caught.  Does 
anyone know of a way that I can get just regular output that is similair 
to just using the ldapsearch utility?

For example with ldapsearch -x -b  'ou=People, o=University of 
Washington, c=US':

I get:
version: 2

#
# filter: (objectclass=*)
# requesting: ALL
#

# search result
search: 2
result: 11 Administrative limit exceeded

# numResponses: 1

A readable error...

Does anyone know how I would get this sort of readable error in Ruby 
with the ldap package?

require 'ldap'

HOST="directory.washington.edu"
BASE="ou=People, o=University, c=US"

LDAP::Conn.new(HOST, LDAP::LDAP_PORT).bind{|conn|
  conn.perror("bind")
  begin
    conn.search(BASE,
      LDAP::LDAP_SCOPE_SUBTREE,
      "(objectclass=*)"
        ){|e|
          p e.keys
        }
  rescue LDAP::ResultError => msg
    $stderr.print(msg)
  end
}

Thanks,
Cere