[Gambas-user] gambas3 and gb.ldap

[Benoit Minisini]

On dimanche 02 novembre 2008, gambas at ...1938... wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 2. November 2008 12:44:24 schrieb Benoit Minisini:
> > On dimanche 02 novembre 2008, gambas at ...1938... wrote:
> > > Am Sonntag, 2. November 2008 12:20:04 schrieb Benoit Minisini:
> > > > On dimanche 02 novembre 2008, gambas at ...1938... wrote:
> > > > > Hi List,
> > > > >
> > > > > I've compiled gambas3 from SVN and missing gb.ldap.
> > > > > configure never said, that this component would be disabled.
> > > > > Here is the ERROR-log of configure:
> > > > >
> > > > > configure: WARNING: Unable to find file: libintl.so
> > > > > configure: WARNING: Unable to find file: libiconv.so
> > > > > configure: WARNING: *** foreign function interface is disabled
> > > > > configure: WARNING: Unable to find file: libfbclient.so
> > > > > configure: WARNING: *** firebird driver is disabled
> > > > > configure: WARNING: Unable to find file: libqte-mt.so
> > > > > configure: WARNING: *** QT/Embedded component is disabled
> > > > > configure: WARNING: *** Gnome desktop routines is disabled
> > > > >
> > > > > No complaints about missing ldap-libs
> > > > >
> > > > > When I open a project and browse the online help, I even can't see
> > > > > no docs regarding gb.ldap.
> > > > >
> > > > > What I'm missing?
> > > > >
> > > > > TIA
> > > > > Stevie
> > > >
> > > > gb.ldap has been removed because it was not maintained and buggy.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > :-((((
> > >
> > > Hmm....in gb.net.curl I found something about "ldapsearchfailed"
> > > and "ldapcannotbind". Is there a way to query my ldap-server using this
> > > class??
> > >
> > > TIA
> > > Stevie
> >
> > If I remember, you can make ldap queries by using ldap command-line
> > tools. Someone talked about that on the mailing-list: I suggest you
> > search about that in user and developer mailing-list!
> >
> > Regards,
>
> Yes, that's right! I used them in my shellscripts lightyears ago.
> One last question: What's about the future of ldap-support in gambas?
> I guess LDAP is as important as db-support.
>
> Greetz
> Stevie
>

I won't do it, but if there is a volunteer...

Otherwise, I don't know ldap very well, but it seems that the command-line 
tools are enough for querying and filling a ldap server.

If you know these tools well, you can even write a ldap component in Gambas 
that use them.

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini