From gene at signalcore.com  Mon May 22 21:16:00 2000
From: gene at signalcore.com (Gene Yu)
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 15:16:00 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: (no subject)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.02.10005221200390.5789-100000@oak.signalcore.com>

I'm new to the list but I have some thoughts to add to the discussion in
the archives from February.  I'm using the LDAP module to build Web
interfaces for directories that are very large and efficient pagination is
a serious concern.

Thanks to Michael Stroeder for pointing out that I can to use asynchronous
searching to pull one record at a time, canceling the search when I reach
the last record on the page.  I've used a similar method with relational
databases in Perl.  But I don't like pulling so much data that I'm just
going to throw away.  Also, without some way of pulling the records in
sorted order, I need the whole set anyway if I want to present them in a
logical way.

The Netscape SDK has a Server-Side Sorting control and a Virtual List View
control that I'd love to be able to use in python.  They published a
couple of Internet Drafts:

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ldapext-ldapv3-vlv-04.txt
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ldapext-sorting-02.txt

Another related topic I discussed with Michael is callbacks.  I think I
see now how I can get some of the effects of callbacks using asynchronous
calls, but it would be a useful feature in the API as well.  HTML
formatting of results, for instance, can sometimes be much simplified.

Thanks also to everyone who contributed to the LDAP module.  It's a
crucial protocol for any language to support.

Gene

-- 
Gene Yu <gene at signalcore.com>





From david.leonard at csee.uq.edu.au  Wed May 31 23:53:26 2000
From: david.leonard at csee.uq.edu.au (David Leonard)
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 07:53:26 +1000 (EST)
Subject: Patch for NDS client libraries (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0006010752060.27067-200000@weevil.dsa.csee.uq.edu.au>

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Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 16:23:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: Cristian Gafton <gafton at redhat.com>
To: leonard at users.sourceforge.net
Subject: Patch for NDS client libraries


Hello,

This patch is necessary for getting the python-ldap module compiled and
linked against Novell's C SDK libraries.

Thanks,

Cristian
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  "How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and 
   Microsoft?"  --Al Gore on Y2K
-------------- next part --------------
Index: ChangeLog
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/python-ldap/python-ldap/ChangeLog,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -r1.1 ChangeLog
--- ChangeLog	2000/02/11 10:02:45	1.1
+++ ChangeLog	2000/05/30 20:20:58
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2000-05-30  Cristian Gafton  <gafton at redhat.com>
+
+	* ldapmodule/constants.c (LDAPinit_constants): Add proper ifdefs for
+	Novell NDS C SDK library
+
 2000-02-11  Federico Di Gregorio  <fog at debian.org>
 
 	* ChangeLog: created global changelog (this file.)
Index: ldapmodule/constants.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/python-ldap/python-ldap/ldapmodule/constants.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
diff -u -r1.1.1.1 constants.c
--- ldapmodule/constants.c	2000/02/01 05:41:27	1.1.1.1
+++ ldapmodule/constants.c	2000/05/30 20:20:59
@@ -65,7 +65,9 @@
 	add_int(d,VERSION1);
 	add_int(d,VERSION2);
 	add_int(d,VERSION);
+#ifdef LDAP_MAX_ATTR_LEN
 	add_int(d,MAX_ATTR_LEN);
+#endif
 	add_int(d,TAG_MESSAGE);
 	add_int(d,TAG_MSGID);
 
@@ -78,10 +80,15 @@
 	add_int(d,REQ_MODRDN);
 	add_int(d,REQ_COMPARE);
 	add_int(d,REQ_ABANDON);
+#ifdef LDAP_REQ_UNBIND_30
 	add_int(d,REQ_UNBIND_30);
+#endif
+#ifdef LDAP_REQ_DELETE_30	
 	add_int(d,REQ_DELETE_30);
+#endif
+#ifdef LDAP_REQ_ABANDON_30	
 	add_int(d,REQ_ABANDON_30);
-
+#endif
 	/* reversibles */
 
 	zero = PyInt_FromLong( 0 );
@@ -106,9 +113,16 @@
 	add_int(d,AUTH_KRBV4);
 	add_int(d,AUTH_KRBV41);
 	add_int(d,AUTH_KRBV42);
+
+#ifdef LDAP_AUTH_SIMPLE_30
 	add_int(d,AUTH_SIMPLE_30);
+#endif
+#ifdef LDAP_AUTH_KRBV41_30	
 	add_int(d,AUTH_KRBV41_30);
+#endif
+#ifdef LDAP_AUTH_KRBV42_30	
 	add_int(d,AUTH_KRBV42_30);
+#endif
 	add_int(d,FILTER_AND);
 	add_int(d,FILTER_OR);
 	add_int(d,FILTER_NOT);
@@ -118,13 +132,21 @@
 	add_int(d,FILTER_LE);
 	add_int(d,FILTER_PRESENT);
 	add_int(d,FILTER_APPROX);
+#ifdef LDAP_FILTER_PRESENT_30
 	add_int(d,FILTER_PRESENT_30);
+#endif
 	add_int(d,SUBSTRING_INITIAL);
 	add_int(d,SUBSTRING_ANY);
 	add_int(d,SUBSTRING_FINAL);
+#ifdef LDAP_SUBSTRING_INITIAL_30
 	add_int(d,SUBSTRING_INITIAL_30);
+#endif
+#ifdef LDAP_SUBSTRING_ANY_30
 	add_int(d,SUBSTRING_ANY_30);
+#endif
+#ifdef LDAP_SUBSTRING_FINAL_30
 	add_int(d,SUBSTRING_FINAL_30);
+#endif
 	add_int(d,SCOPE_BASE);
 	add_int(d,SCOPE_ONELEVEL);
 	add_int(d,SCOPE_SUBTREE);
@@ -135,7 +157,9 @@
 
 	/* (errors.c contains the error constants) */
 
+#ifdef LDAP_DEFAULT_REFHOPLIMIT
 	add_int(d,DEFAULT_REFHOPLIMIT);
+#endif	
 #ifdef LDAP_CACHE_BUCKETS
 	add_int(d,CACHE_BUCKETS);
 #endif
@@ -162,7 +186,9 @@
 	/* XXX - these belong in errors.c */
 
 	add_int(d,URL_ERR_NOTLDAP);
+#ifdef LDAP_URL_ERR_NODN
 	add_int(d,URL_ERR_NODN);
+#endif
 	add_int(d,URL_ERR_BADSCOPE);
 	add_int(d,URL_ERR_MEM);