Re: BUG? add() fails with resultCode=>32, errorMessage=>''

On Oct 17, 2008, at 12:49 PM, Jason Vas Dias wrote:
>
> So it seems the Net::LDAP issue (very minor bug) is that in case 1  
> above,

No, it is not a bug.

> Net::LDAP gets this response:
>
> "
> LDAP::process
> Net::LDAP=HASH(0xca22c0) received:23 bytes
>
> 30 15 02 01 02 69 10 0A 01 20 04 09 6F 3D 61 74 0....i... ..o=at
> 74 2E 63 6F 6D 04 00 __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ t.com..
>
> 0000   21: SEQUENCE {
> 0002    1:   INTEGER = 2
> 0005   16:   [APPLICATION 9] {
> 0007    1:     ENUM = 32
> 000A    9:     STRING = 'o=att.com'
> 0015    0:     STRING = ''
> 0017     :   }
> 0017     : }

That is what your server returned.

> And Net::LDAP returns an error status mesg with "resultCode=>32" for  
> the case #1 add() ;
> $VAR1 = bless( {
>                 'parent' => bless( {
>                                      'net_ldap_version' => 3,
>                                      'net_ldap_scheme' => 'ldap',
>                                      'net_ldap_debug' => 1,
>                                      'net_ldap_socket' =>  
> bless( \*Symbol::GEN1, 'IO::Socket::INET' ),
>                                      'net_ldap_onerror' => sub  
> { "DUMMY" },
>                                      'net_ldap_host' => 'localhost',
>                                      'net_ldap_uri' => 'localhost',
>                                      'net_ldap_resp' => {},
>                                      'net_ldap_mesg' => {},
>                                      'net_ldap_async' => 0,
>                                      'net_ldap_port' => '389',
>                                      'net_ldap_refcnt' => 1
>                                    }, 'Net::LDAP' ),
>                 'errorMessage' => '',
>                 'ctrl_hash' => undef,
>                 'resultCode' => 32,
>                 'callback' => undef,
>                 'mesgid' => 2,
>                 'matchedDN' => 'o=att.com',
>                 'controls' => undef,
>                 'raw' => undef
>               }, 'Net::LDAP::Add' );
>
> but I think it should also be returning an "errorMessage=>'no such  
> object'" in this case,

Why are you looking inside the object ??

Use the methods as defined in the documentation and you will get the  
error message you want.

> whereas it returned an empty string in errorMessage - an error  
> string would have greatly
> helped in diagnosing the problem and correcting my mistake.

Tell you LDAP server vendor as that is the source of that attribute.  
Net::LDAP works around this issue if you call the methods as defined  
in the documentation

Graham.