Re: ppolicy control and change password exop (again)

Guillaume Rousse <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.ldap
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Graham Barr a écrit :
> 
> On May 27, 2009, at 2:58 AM, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> 
>> Chris Ridd a écrit :
>>> which is "passwordTooShort". So... the server seems OK and it must be 
>>> the perl code that's going wrong somewhere. If you single-step into 
>>> result->control does it look like it is finding and returning the 
>>> right thing?
>> Actually, it returns a list of controls, and the code enforce a scalar 
>> context...
>>
>> Changing the code to
>> my ($response) = $result->control(LDAP_CONTROL_PASSWORDPOLICY);
>> is enough to fix the issue. And the documentation is correct, I just 
>> misread it :(
>>
>> Having the method named controlS would have been less error-prone but 
>> I guess it's a bit late to change it.
> 
> Actually I htink there is a bug. As you only have one control in your 
> response, if you did
> 
>   my $response = $result->control;
> 
> you would have got the control.
> 
> That is because when there are arguments to ->control, the code is 
> returning an array, not a list, which in a scalar context returns its 
> length.
> 
> Also, the current code only supports passing one OID, although the docs 
> suggest otherwise
> 
> Try this patch
It works as expected.

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