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Id: 45917
Status: rejected
Priority: 0/
Queue: perl-ldap
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: dma_k [...] mail.ru
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Severity: Normal
Broken in: 0.39
Fixed in: (no value)

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  Sun May 10 06:31:02 2009 dma_k [...] mail.ru - Ticket created
Subject: Empty filter during the search should be acceptable
I would like to make a search knowing only the DN of the record, I would like to find. So I do: $ldap->search('base' => $dn, 'scope' => 'base'); The call dies with message: Bad filter at my.pl line 156 As a workaround I've defined the catch-all filter: $ldap->search('base' => $dn, 'filter' => '(cn=*)', 'scope' => 'base'); I think, this is dummy. search() should accept empty filter and possibly handle this situation somehow internally. At least ldapsearch utility works fine with no filter defined (returns all records).
  Mon May 11 10:29:07 2009 gbarr [...] pobox.com - Correspondence added
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #45917] Empty filter during the search should be acceptable
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 09:28:39 -0500
To: bug-perl-ldap [...] rt.cpan.org
From: Graham Barr <gbarr [...] pobox.com>
On May 10, 2009, at 5:31 AM, dma_k@mail.ru via RT wrote: Show quoted text
> I think, this is dummy. search() should accept empty filter and > possibly > handle this situation somehow internally. At least ldapsearch utility > works fine with no filter defined (returns all records).
Personally I disagree. If the author wants all as a result they should be explicit in their code. The usual search used is '(objectClass=*)'
  Mon May 11 10:29:07 2009 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Wed May 13 05:14:02 2009 dma_k [...] mail.ru - Correspondence added
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> Personally I disagree. If the author wants all as a result they should > be explicit > in their code. The usual search used is '(objectClass=*)'
Well, we have different opinions, that's normal. But for me a framework should be user-oriented, in terms is should be easy and logical. Imagine, that perl precompiler will complain for each uninitialized declaration: my $a; # The variable "a" should be initialized forcing us to write: my $a = undef; # That's fine I would kill myself in a while, really. Sometimes logical assumptions are good :) Anyway, let's vote (in maillist for example)...
  Thu Mar 11 21:09:36 2010 GBARR [...] CPAN.ORG - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'