NAME

SYNOPSIS

  use Net::LDAP::Entry;
  use Net::LDAP::Filter;
  use Net::LDAP::FilterMatch;

  my $entry = new Net::LDAP::Entry;
  $entry->dn("cn=dummy entry");
  $entry->add (
   'cn' => 'dummy entry',
   'street' => [ '1 some road','nowhere' ] );

  my @filters = (qw/(cn=dummy*)
                 (ou=*)
                 (&(cn=dummy*)(street=*road))
                 (&(cn=dummy*)(!(street=nowhere)))/);


  for (@filters) {
    my $filter = Net::LDAP::Filter->new($_);
    print $_,' : ', $filter->match($entry) ? 'match' : 'no match' ,"\n";
  }

ABSTRACT

Given an entry it will tell whether the entry matches the filter object.

It can be used on its own or as part of a Net::LDAP::Server based LDAP server.

METHOD

match ( ENTRY [ ,SCHEMA ] )

Return whether ENTRY matches the filter object. If a schema object is provided, the selection of matching algorithms will be derived from schema.

In case of error undef is returned.

For approximate matching like (cn~=Schmidt) there are several modules that can be used. By default the following modules will be tried in this order:

  String::Approx
  Text::Metaphone
  Text::Soundex

If none of these modules is found it will fall back on a simple regexp algorithm.

If you want to specifically use one implementation only, simply do

  use Net::LDAP::FilterMatch qw(Text::Soundex);

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