These routines are used to parse results received from
ldap_result(3) or the synchronous LDAP search operation routines
ldap_search_s(3) and
ldap_search_st(3) . The
ldap_first_entry() routine is used to retrieve the first entry in a chain
of search results. It takes the result as returned by a call to
ldap_result(3) or
ldap_search_s(3) or
ldap_search_st(3) and returns a pointer to the first entry in the result.
This pointer should be supplied on a subsequent call to
ldap_next_entry() to get the next entry, the result of which should be
supplied to the next call to
ldap_next_entry() , etc.
ldap_next_entry() will return NULL when there are no more entries. The entries returned
from these calls are used in calls to the routines described in
ldap_get_dn(3) ,ldap_first_attribute(3) ,ldap_get_values(3) , etc.
A count of the number of entries in the search result can be obtained
by calling
ldap_count_entries() .
ERRORS
If an error occurs in
ldap_first_entry() or
ldap_next_entry() , NULL is returned and the ld_errno field in the ld parameter
is set to indicate the error. If an error occurs in
ldap_count_entries() , -1 is returned, and
ld_errno is set appropriately. See
ldap_error(3) for a description of possible error codes.
OpenLDAP is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project (http://www.openldap.org/).
OpenLDAP is derived from University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release.
