ldb API?

[Simo Sorce]

On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 00:47, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> Hi, Samba4 developers!
> 
> How much of the ldb API is set in stone?
> 
> Half a year ago I did some work to get rid of the RFC API, and in samba4 the
> ldb API re-invents exactly the same API in a less functional varient. For
> example currently you can't get paged results through that API (my current
> favourite, but this should only display the point).
> 
> libcli/ldap/ outlines a "new" api, based on structures. Would you be willing to
> convert the existing code to that kind of API? This would essentially mean to
> re-implement much of ldb_tdb.c and the modules stuff. This API gives us the
> full LDAP semantics while already being talloc based. Sooner or later (I
> suspect rather soon...) we need more of the LDAP semantics than the current ldb
> API provides anyway.
> 
> I might start looking at that, but this is not worth the effort if Samba4 can't
> settle on that API.

Any Chance we can get paged results by using a module?
I think the only constraint is to try to keep ldb interfaces as simple
as possible and then implement the rest at upper layers or through
modules.
Said that feel free to propose any change you see fit.

Simo.
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