hi fellas and felines,

I've got the weirdest situation problem. Last week, I've started playing with DBD::LDAP together with Class::DBI. Well, I want to use DBD::LDAP as datasource for Class::DBI because I was creating a web based LDAP browser. I'm using the Class::DBI since I was too lazy to create all the search and search_like subs.

So, OKAY, all goes perfect and smoothly and jiggy when I query a OpenLDAP server. It even works very fast!
But here it comes: when I try to query a Netscape LDAP server (that's the one their using at my work), it returns very weird stuff.

Some more information. I'm building the webpages with Template. I can see when I use the retrieve() method of Class::DBI that it retrieves that uid I've asked for 

eval { $vars->{user} = MVG::User->retrieve( %data ) ; };
# %data contains keys/values from q->params
# MVG::User isa class with Class::DBI as base
# $vars->{user} is the var I'm passing to Template

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This works! The object passed to the template looks like this (in Dumper): 
$VAR1 = bless( {
    'uid' => 'someuid'
}, 'MVG::User' );

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So, in both cases (OpenLDAP, Netscape LDAP), this goes perfect.

Now here it comes: in the template I do stuff like this: 

[% FOREACH method IN user.columns.sort -%]
<tr>
        <th> [% method -%]: </th>
        [%- IF method == "mail"-%]
                <td> <a href="mailto:[% user.$method || "&nbsp;" -%]">
+[% user.$method || "&nbsp;" -%] </td>
        [%- ELSE -%]
                <td> [% user.$method || "&nbsp;" -%] </td>
        [%- END -%]
</tr>
[%- END -%]

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Like I said before, the template code works perfect for OpenLDAP, for Netscape LDAP wicked stuff happens!
Lemme elaborate:

I've been testing and testing for about 4 days now.. and I haven't got a clue what's wrong!

Oh yeah: you need to patch/hack the DBD::LDAP (mostly JLdap.pm) a little bit before it works nicely with Class::DBI.. a lot of the match and substitute actions need an extra i (case insensitive) at the end ;-) I've mailed the author about this, but he's not reacting on my mails..

So.. if someone can think of some more test I can do, maybe some experiences he had about this... ANYTHING is welcome! I just don't understand why the code works perfect on a OpenLDAP server, and it doesn't on Netscape (well, it does according to Ethereal..).

Sorry for the very long post... but i needed to talk to someone.
Many thanks in advance for bearing with me..

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to remain ignorant is a lifelong shame

In reply to DBD::LDAP and Class::DBI situation by insaniac

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