LDAP_FRIENDLY(3LDAP) LDAP Library Functions LDAP_FRIENDLY(3LDAP)

NAME

ldap_friendly, ldap_friendly_name, ldap_free_friendlymap - LDAP
attribute remapping functions

SYNOPSIS

cc[ flag... ] file... -lldap[ library... ]
#include <lber.h>
#include <ldap.h>

char *ldap_friendly_name(char *filename, char *name,
FriendlyMap **map);


void ldap_free_friendlymap(FriendlyMap **map);

DESCRIPTION

This function is used to map one set of strings to another.
Typically, this is done for country names, to map from the two-letter
country codes to longer more readable names. The mechanism is
general enough to be used with other things, though.


filename is the name of a file containing the unfriendly to friendly
mapping, name is the unfriendly name to map to a friendly name, and
map is a result-parameter that should be set to NULL on the first
call. It is then used to hold the mapping in core so that the file
need not be read on subsequent calls.


For example:

FriendlyMap *map = NULL;
printf( "unfriendly %s => friendly %s\n", name,
ldap_friendly_name( "ETCDIR/ldapfriendly", name, &map ) );


The mapping file should contain lines like this:
unfriendlyname\tfriendlyname. Lines that begin with a '#' character
are comments and are ignored.


The ldap_free_friendlymap() call is used to free structures allocated
by ldap_friendly_name() when no more calls to ldap_friendly_name()
are to be made.

ERRORS

NULL is returned by ldap_friendly_name() if there is an error opening
filename, or if the file has a bad format, or if the map parameter is
NULL.

FILES

ETCDIR/ldapfriendly.conf

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(7) for a description of the following attributes:


+--------------------+-----------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
|Interface Stability | Evolving |
+--------------------+-----------------+

SEE ALSO

ldap(3LDAP), attributes(7)

January 27, 2002 LDAP_FRIENDLY(3LDAP)