Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Michael Ströder wrote:
LDAPSEARCH will always include a trailing newline if there is data; is
this technically correct behaviour?
Can you please elaborate what's the issue with this is?
I turned the guts of my "ldapdiff" utility into a Perl function to make it
available to other scripts, and a colleague complained that when comparing
two identical entries a blank line was returned, which I assumed was
correct behaviour i.e. no LDIF update commands but you still get the
trailing line.
So I'd consider the diff mechanism needs some work. Not sure what
the output of your ldapdiff utility should look like. If it's
meant to generate LDIF with change records and there are no
changes at all it should return nothing, nada.
This is again a prime example why I most times recommend not to
take the loop way over text processing to do database access via
LDAP. Rather consider to process diff's directly in syncing processes.
Ciao, Michael.
