Some unknown number of hours wasted… hopefully this will help someone else before they disappear too much into no-search-result darkness.<\/p>\n
Using Perl’s Net::LDAP<\/a> to manage LDAP entries, I was getting the following error back after calling “update” on an Entry object<\/p>\n This, it turns out, was because I was trying to update an entry without having put in any modifications with the following sort of code path:<\/p>\n I (appear to) have fixed this by refactoring to:<\/p>\n So, basically, don’t call update() unless you’ve got changes to make \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some unknown number of hours wasted… hopefully this will help someone else before they disappear too much into no-search-result darkness. Using Perl’s Net::LDAP to manage … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[152,706],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unseenit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unseenit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unseenit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unseenit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unseenit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unseenit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unseenit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unseenit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unseenit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unseenit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} LDAP error 82 (LDAP_LOCAL_ERROR: An error occurred in C<Net::LDAP>;)<\/pre>\n
$entry->replace ( $attribute => $value )\r\n unless $entry->get_value($attribute) eq $value;\r\n $entry->update($ldap);<\/pre>\n
unless ($entry->get_value($attribute) eq $value) {\r\n $entry->replace ( $attribute => $value );\r\n $entry->update($ldap);\r\n }<\/pre>\n