D LDAP library?

Daniel Oliveira via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Aug 13 14:38:30 PDT 2014


On Wednesday, 13 August 2014 at 18:34:34 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
> On Wednesday, 13 August 2014 at 07:46:08 UTC, Daniel Oliveira
> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 12 August 2014 at 04:17:52 UTC, dnewbie wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 12 August 2014 at 00:36:17 UTC, Andrei 
>>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> Hello, got a question today from a user - is there an LDAP 
>>>> library for D? Thanks! -- Andrei
>>>
>>> There is a raw binding to openldap c library.
>>> http://d.darktech.org/bindings/ldap.zip
>>
>> Andrei,
>> Yeah, I already know about these LDAP/OpenLDAP library (which 
>> is also most funded/written by Novell/Suse engineers), however 
>> that is all C based and I was thinking about it 
>> writing/rewriting all in D to be in 'D'Best or 'D'Smart code, 
>> adding a few extra features (such as thread polls) and things 
>> like that.
>
> That would be great.  My biggest issue with OpenLDAP is that
> there's no facility to use it with an event-based network model.
> There's some internal function to get the file descriptor for a
> connection, but you can't actually use it.  Ideally, such a
> library would optionally let you do the event handling yourself
> and just call API routines to process message chunks on each
> event callback.

Sean,

Yep, I totally agree with you.
-Daniel


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