On 13/6/05 12:38, David Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Just three comments on Net::LDAP::LDIF...
>
> 1) Using:
>
> my $load_ldif = Net::LDAP::LDIF->new($LOAD_FILE, "w", lowercase => 0,
> wrap => 0);
> ...
> $entry->add("cellPhone" => "$phone_number"); # cellPhone with
> upper-case "P"
> ...
> $yahoo_load_ldif->write_entry($entry);
>
> produces a line in the output file like:
>
> cellphone: ... # cellphone with lower-case "p"
>
> so either the "lowercase" arg to "new" isn't working correctly, or I'm
> somehow using it incorrectly?
I think you're turning off lowercasing and wrapping. Try setting them to 1
instead ;-)
> Further, to be honest I'm not sure whether either of these should be
> considered bugs, but they might be worth handling:
>
> 2) When creating a new LDIF file with "w", no blank line is added after
> the final LDIF entry. At least with some tools (Yahoo address book, for
> example), having no final blank line causes the final LDIF entry to be
> ignored upon loading. Adding a final blank line to the LDIF file seems
> to fix this problem. Again, I haven't looked at the LDIF standard in
> detail, so strictly speaking this might just be a Yahoo problem, not a
> Net::LDAP::LDIF problem.
Yes, it's a Yahoo problem. The separating line is in front of a record
according to the RFC, so there shouldn't be a blank line at the end of the
file.
> 3) If Net::LDAP::LDIF is run on UNIX but opens a Windows-created LDIF
> file (\r\n instead of just \n line endings), read_entry doesn't properly
> read in the separate entries.
That sounds like a bug.
Cheers,
Chris
