Mark Banner wrote:
Is there an easy way with LDAP (and the current 5.1.7 client branch) to
get the number of items in a search result, before receiving all the
results themselves?
I've been looking through the documentation and not found a reference to
this so I guess it probably can't be done, but just want to check before
I forget the idea completely.
I am not sure I understand exactly what you are asking but I assume you
want to find out how many entries a search would return without having
the server return all the entries to the client.
The way the base LDAP protocol is designed, the entries included in a
search result must be retrieved in order to count them. You can limit
the amount of data between the server and your client by asking for a
minimal number of attributes, or, in servers that support it, you can
use fancier things like a Virtual List View control to retrieve a count.
Typically, VLV must be preconfigured on the server side for best
performance though.
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Mark Smith
Pearl Crescent, LLC http://pearlcrescent.com/
LDAP Book Information http://ldapbook.com/
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