Net::LDAP::Server - LDAP server side protocol handling
package MyServer; use Net::LDAP::Server; use Net::LDAP::Constant qw(LDAP_SUCCESS); use base 'Net::LDAP::Server'; sub search { my $self = shift; my ($reqData, $fullRequest) = @_; print "Searching\n"; ... return { 'matchedDN' => '', 'errorMessage' => '', 'resultCode' => LDAP_SUCCESS }, @entries; } package main; my $handler = MyServer->new($socket); $handler->handle; # or with distinct input and output handles package main; my $handler = MyServer->new( $input_handle, $output_handle ); $handler->handle;
This class provides the protocol handling for an LDAP server. You can subclass it and implement the methods you need (see below). Then you just instantiate your subclass and call its handle method to establish a connection with the client.
handle
You can subclass Net::LDAP::Server with the following lines:
package MyServer; use Net::LDAP::Server; use base 'Net::LDAP::Server';
Then you can add your custom methods by just implementing a subroutine named after the name of each method. These are supported methods:
bind
unbind
search
add
modify
delete
modifyDN
compare
abandon
For any method that is not supplied, Net::LDAP::Server will return an LDAP_UNWILLING_TO_PERFORM.
LDAP_UNWILLING_TO_PERFORM
You can also subclass the new constructor to do something at connection time:
new
sub new { my ($class, $sock) = @_; my $self = $class->SUPER::new($sock); printf "Accepted connection from: %s\n", $sock->peerhost(); return $self; }
Note that $self is constructed using the fields pragma, so if you want to add data to it you should add a line like this in your subclass:
use fields qw(myCustomField1 myCustomField2);
When a method is invoked it will be obviously passed $self as generated by new, and two variables:
$self
the Request datastructure that is specific for this method (e.g. BindRequest);
the full request message (useful if you want to access messageID or controls parts)
You can look at Net::LDAP::ASN or use Data::Dumper to find out what is presented to your method:
use Data::Dumper; sub search { print Dumper \@_; }
If anything goes wrong in the module you specify (e.g. it died or the result is not a correct ldapresult structure) Net::LDAP::Server will return an LDAP_OPERATIONS_ERROR where the errorMessage will specify what went wrong.
LDAP_OPERATIONS_ERROR
All methods should return a LDAPresult hashref, for example:
return({ 'matchedDN' => '', 'errorMessage' => '', 'resultCode' => LDAP_SUCCESS });
search should return a LDAPresult hashref followed by a list of entries (if applicable). Entries may be coded either as searchResEntry or searchRefEntry structures or as Net::LDAP::Entry or Net::LDAP::Reference objects.
When you get a socket from a client you can instantiate the class and handle the request:
my $handler = MyServer->new($socket); $handler->handle;
Or, alternatively, you can pass two handles for input and output, respectively.
my $handler = MyServer->new(*STDIN{IO},*STDOUT{IO}); $handler->handle;
See examples in examples/ directory for sample servers, using IO::Select, Net::Daemon or Net::Server.
Net::LDAP::ASN Net::LDAP::Constant
examples
There are no known bugs. You are very welcome to write mail to the maintainer (aar@cpan.org) with your contributions, comments, suggestions, bug reports or complaints.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
Alessandro Ranellucci <aar@cpan.org> The original author of a Net::LDAP::Daemon module is Hans Klunder <hans.klunder@bigfoot.com>
To install Net::LDAP::Server, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Net::LDAP::Server
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Net::LDAP::Server
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.