NAME | LIBRARY | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | ERRORS | NOTES | SEE ALSO | ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | COLOPHON

LDAP_GET_VALUES(3)        Library Functions Manual        LDAP_GET_VALUES(3)

NAME         top

       ldap_get_values,   ldap_get_values_len,   ldap_count_values   -  LDAP
       attribute value handling routines

LIBRARY         top

       OpenLDAP LDAP (libldap, -lldap)

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <ldap.h>
       char **ldap_get_values(ld, entry, attr)
       LDAP *ld;
       LDAPMessage *entry;
       char *attr;
       struct berval **ldap_get_values_len(ld, entry, attr)
       LDAP *ld;
       LDAPMessage *entry;
       char *attr;
       int ldap_count_values(vals)
       char **vals;
       int ldap_count_values_len(vals)
       struct berval **vals;
       void ldap_value_free(vals)
       char **vals;
       void ldap_value_free_len(vals)
       struct berval **vals;

DESCRIPTION         top

       These routines are used to retrieve and manipulate attribute values
       from an LDAP entry as returned by ldap_first_entry(3) or
       ldap_next_entry(3).  ldap_get_values() takes the entry and the
       attribute attr whose values are desired and returns a NULL-terminated
       array of the attribute's values.  attr may be an attribute type as
       returned from ldap_first_attribute(3) or ldap_next_attribute(3), or
       if the attribute type is known it can simply be given.
       The number of values in the array can be counted by calling
       ldap_count_values().  The array of values returned can be freed by
       calling ldap_value_free().
       If the attribute values are binary in nature, and thus not suitable
       to be returned as an array of char *'s, the ldap_get_values_len()
       routine can be used instead.  It takes the same parameters as
       ldap_get_values(), but returns a NULL-terminated array of pointers to
       berval structures, each containing the length of and a pointer to a
       value.
       The number of values in the array can be counted by calling
       ldap_count_values_len().  The array of values returned can be freed
       by calling ldap_value_free_len().

ERRORS         top

       If an error occurs in ldap_get_values() or ldap_get_values_len(),
       NULL is returned and the ld_errno field in the ld parameter is set to
       indicate the error.  See ldap_error(3) for a description of possible
       error codes.

NOTES         top

       These routines dynamically allocate memory which the caller must free
       using the supplied routines.

SEE ALSO         top

       ldap(3), ldap_first_entry(3), ldap_first_attribute(3), ldap_error(3)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS         top

       OpenLDAP Software is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project
       <http://www.openldap.org/>.  OpenLDAP Software is derived from the
       University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release.

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the OpenLDAP (an open source implementation of
       the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) project.  Information
       about the project can be found at ⟨http://www.openldap.org/⟩.  If you
       have a bug report for this manual page, see 
       ⟨http://www.openldap.org/its/⟩.  This page was obtained from the
       project's upstream Git repository 
       ⟨git://git.openldap.org/openldap.git⟩ on 2017-07-05.  If you discover
       any rendering problems in this HTML version of the page, or you
       believe there is a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or
       you have corrections or improvements to the information in this
       COLOPHON (which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail
       to man-pages@man7.org
OpenLDAP LDVERSION               RELEASEDATE              LDAP_GET_VALUES(3)

Pages that refer to this page: ldap(3)ldap_first_attribute(3)ldap_first_entry(3)ldap_get_dn(3)ldap_parse_reference(3)ldap_parse_result(3)