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Re: Pharo & LDAP

Posted by Olivier Auverlot on Feb 17, 2011; 6:47am
URL: https://forum.world.st/Pharo-LDAP-tp3308841p3310256.html

Le 16/02/11 20:59, Stéphane Ducasse a écrit :
> did you check what you got in attrs?
This is a dictionnary... this is why that i ask me the utility of the
method asByteArray.
> Because may be the code is simply old and require fixes.
yes. it's possible. I already changed the code because it contains the
deprecated method or:or:

I will take time in the next day to evaluate LDAPlayer. I think it is
critical for Pharo to have an LDAP network protocol. Many enterprises
use it for user identification and data storage.

Olivier ;-)

www.auverlot.fr

> Stef
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> For a project of REST services with Pharo and Seaside, I need to send requests to an LDAP server. I found a project named LDAPlayer on squeaksource.
>>
>> Now, I can create a connection and do a request to the LDAP server.
>>
>> But... my problem is to read an attribute in the result. In the LDAPSearchResultEntry object, the method to get a value is :
>>
>> attrAt: aKey
>>     | selected |
>>     selected := attrs at: (aKey asByteArray) ifAbsent: [ ^ nil ].
>>     ^ selected first asString.
>>
>> The problem seems to be on the third line with the use of the asByteArray method. Why used this method ?
>>
>> For my tests, I remplaced it with :
>>
>> selected := attrs at: aKey ifAbsent: [ ^ nil ].
>>
>> And now, it's ok but I don't know if my modification could introduce others problems.
>>
>> What do you think about that ? Someone has used LDAPlayer with Pharo ?
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Olivier ;-)
>>
>> www.auverlot.fr
>>
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