I'm not sure that changing the filter to (objectClass=*) will work. In my
idea it will make a infinite loop.
If you don't have only organizationalUnit as structural class in your DIT,
i think that a filter on the exhaustive list of your structural class is
better. ex:(|(objectClass=organizationalUnit)(
objectClass=anotherStructuralClass))...
Yves-Marie LAINE
Pour : Brian Reichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cc : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Objet : Re: technique for recursive
delete?
15/08/2004 03:15 Peter
Lavender
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Veuillez
r�pondre �
plaven
>Thanks for all the feedback. I went ahead an wrote a simple recursive
>desent for my containers. I made the assumption that they were all
>organizationalUnits.
>
>
But what if the OU is not the only way you have structured your DIT?
By changing the filter to objectClass=* it will remove your current
assumption that each "container" object is an OU. This means you should
be able to simply have a startpoint to pass your sub routine and let it
rip. :)
So if you have a (contrived) DIT that for example has
ou=sales,ou=factory1,l=location3,l=location2,o=big Org,c=uk
and you wanted to delete all entries under l=location2, your subroutine
doesn't have to change.
Just a thought..
>I'm not going to claim this will work for everyone, but this works
>for me:
>
>#--------
># recursively delete a container.
>
>sub container_descend
>{
> my $base = shift;
> my $ldap = shift;
>
> my $mesg = $ldap->search( base => $base, scope=> 'one',
> filter => 'objectclass=organizationalUnit',
> );
>
> foreach my $entry ($mesg->all_entries)
> { &container_descend($entry->dn, $ldap); }
>
> $mesg = $ldap->search( base => $base, scope=> 'one',
> filter => 'objectclass=*',
> );
>
> foreach my $entry ($mesg->all_entries)
> {
> my $result = $ldap->delete($entry);
> if (defined $result) { $result->code && warn "failed: ",
$result->error ; }
> }
>
> $debug && print $tag."- deleting $base\n";
> my $result = $ldap->delete($base);
> if (defined $result) { $result->code && warn "failed: ", $result->error
; }
>}
>
>
>
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