Page control confusion

[Dan Cutler]

Hello All!

 

So I have a simple search using page control via response cookies.

 

But for some strange reason, it just keeps searching as if it’s not seeing its own page cookie.

I was under the impression that:

   my ($resp)  = $search->control( LDAP_CONTROL_PAGED )  or last;

 

would return the number of results coming back from my paged query.  Under a debugger, I see this:

 

main::get_from_ldap(./generic_audit.pl:82):

82:           my ($resp)  = $search->control( LDAP_CONTROL_PAGED )  or last;

  DB<2> n

main::get_from_ldap(./generic_audit.pl:83):

83:           $cookie    = $resp->cookie or last;

  DB<2> print Dumper $resp

$VAR1 = bless( {

                 'value' => '0��

 

                                ����}&u�6��`�f)�Sm�r���ұב��ChO���'i���C

����c���IK���

~$����

        �!�����INDEX_00000000�

        �

        ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������',

                 'type' => '1.2.840.113556.1.4.319',

                 'raw' => undef

               }, 'Net::LDAP::Control::Paged' );

 

I’m a bit confused.

 

Can someone point out my error here?

 

Thanks All!

 

--Dan

 

 

My snippet (mostly lifted from the example):

 

use Net::LDAP;

use Net::LDAP::Control::Paged;

use Net::LDAP::Constant qw( LDAP_CONTROL_PAGED );

 

$ldap = AD::ldap_connect(…) unless $ldap;

my $page = Net::LDAP::Control::Paged->new( size => 900 );

 

sub get_from_ldap {

   my $filter = shift;

   my @entries;

   my $cookie;

   my @sargs = ( base        => $base_dn,

              scope       => 'sub',

              filter      => $filter,

              control     => [ $page ] );

 

   while(1) {

      my $search = $ldap->search(@sargs);

      # todo add check for $search->code to detect fail

      push(@entries,$search->entries);

 

      $search->code and last;

      my ($resp)  = $search->control( LDAP_CONTROL_PAGED )  or last;

      $cookie    = $resp->cookie or last;

 

      # reset cookie in paged control

        $page->cookie($cookie);

   }

 

   # clean up if last – probably don’t really have to do this but…

   if ($cookie) {

      $page->cookie($cookie);

      $page->size(0);

      $ldap->search(@sargs);

   }

   return (@entries);

}

 

my @entries = get_from_ldap(‘objectclass=user’);

 

…

[Dan Cutler]

Update:

 

Changing the page size to 100 seems to solve the situation.

I’m not sure why but I can live with the mystery.

 

I’ve got about 2800 objects so 28 queries is just fine.

 

Thanks anyway!

 

--Dan