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Does LDAP (or any Ruby client library for LDAP) support batch calls?

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Why batch?

(|(cn=user1)(cn=user2)(cn=user3)(cn=user4)(cn=user5)(cn=user6))

The LDAP filter string length can be looked at as unlimited for nearly all practical purposes.

Tomalak 2009-04-21 17:13:43

sweet, didn't know that. thanks!

Aaron F. 2009-04-21 17:20:03

Maybe you can specify a bit more what you're after? :)

Tomalak 2009-04-21 17:23:06

I'm ultimately trying to do a query that starts from a given employee, then walks up their management change, stopping based on an employee's grade level (and returning that high-level manager). There's probably no way to do that within a single query, though.

Aaron F. 2009-04-21 18:02:52

Okay, it helps to read the spec: : ) http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2254

Aaron F. 2009-04-21 18:08:39

Pay attention to the filter escaping rules in section 4! Don't put in any unescaped values when building your filter string.

Tomalak 2009-04-21 18:27:50

If you are walking the the manager hierarchy, my answer to a question asked much earlier (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/190516) may be of value to you. It's not ruby, but the general approach is probably useful all the same.

Tomalak 2009-04-21 18:32:18

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