Behaviour when object is not found

[David Leonard]

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Michael Ströder typed thusly:

> OpenLDAP 1.2.x when trying to read a non-existent entry ldapmodule
> raised exception ldap.NO_SUCH_OBJECT which is very handy to handle
> non-existing entries.
> 
> With OpenLDAP 2.0beta ldapmodule returns an empty result list
> instead which breaks existing code. I would expect that this is more
> a OpenLDAP 2.0 issue but before I start a discussion on
> openldap-devel at openldap.org I would like to understand exactly under
> which conditions the exception ldap.NO_SUCH_OBJECT is raised.

if ldap_search() or ldap_result() returns -1 AND the LDAP structure has 
its ld_errno field set to NO_SUCH_OBJECT, then that exception is raised.

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