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Commit: 791c21c8150041dc7cfa5302961485d942016053
Parent: 93cad488cb2c9a31aea345c8910a9f9c5815071c
Author: Heiko Schlittermann <hs+exim@???>
AuthorDate: Sun Aug 31 14:13:22 2014 +0100
Committer: Jeremy Harris <jgh146exb@???>
CommitDate: Sun Aug 31 14:14:59 2014 +0100
Further doc examples for ldap lookup output
---
doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt | 13 +++++++++----
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
index 4d620a3..e8e4109 100644
--- a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
+++ b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
@@ -7346,22 +7346,25 @@ Apart from the escaping, the string within quotes takes the same form as the
output when a single attribute is requested. Specifying no attributes is the
same as specifying all of an entry's attributes.
+.new
Here are some examples of the output format. The first line of each pair is an
LDAP query, and the second is the data that is returned. The attribute called
-&%attr1%& has two values, whereas &%attr2%& has only one value:
+&%attr1%& has two values, one of them with an embedded comma, whereas
+&%attr2%& has only one value:
.code
ldap:///o=base?attr1?sub?(uid=fred)
-value1.1,value1.2
+value1.1,value1,,2
ldap:///o=base?attr2?sub?(uid=fred)
value two
ldap:///o=base?attr1,attr2?sub?(uid=fred)
-attr1="value1.1,value1.2" attr2="value two"
+attr1="value1.1,value1,,2" attr2="value two"
ldap:///o=base??sub?(uid=fred)
-objectClass="top" attr1="value1.1,value1.2" attr2="value two"
+objectClass="top" attr1="value1.1,value1,,2" attr2="value two"
.endd
+.wen
You can
make use of Exim's &%-be%& option to run expansion tests and thereby check the
results of LDAP lookups.
@@ -7370,6 +7373,8 @@ individual fields from data that consists of &'key'&=&'value'& pairs.
.new
The &%listextract%& operator should be used to pick out individual values
of attributes, even when only a single value is expected.
+The doubling of embedded commas allows you to use the returned data as a
+comma separated list (using the "<," syntax for changing the input list separator)
.wen
