[Fedora-directory-users] Paged Results support?

Ben abnormaliti at clivepeeters.com.au
Tue Jan 15 23:42:07 UTC 2008


Rich Megginson wrote:
> Ben wrote:
>> Rich Megginson wrote:
>>> Ben wrote:
>>>> Does FDS support Paged Results?
>>> Fedora DS does not support the LDAPv3 Paged Results feature.  Fedora 
>>> DS does support VLV (Virtual List View) which can be used to page 
>>> through many entries.  This is what the console refers to as a 
>>> "Browsing Index".
>> Thanks for the info.
>>
>> OK, so how would i go about using VLV in 'perl' and 'php'?
> You can use Net::LDAP to create and parse the VLV controls using the 
> Convert::ASN1 package.  Not sure about php.
There is a "Net::LDAP::Control::VLV" perl module.  i have not been able 
to get it work.  Is there some preparation that needs to be done on the 
FDS server to allow/support it?
>> And how does that affect 'nss_ldap' with "nss_paged_results yes" and 
>> "pagesize 1000" set?
> If the paged results control is not marked critical, fedora ds will 
> ignore it.  So it will have no effect.
I assume you mean in bugzilla?

Ben




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