ldap_modify(3) — Linux manual page

NAME | LIBRARY | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | DEPRECATED INTERFACES | SEE ALSO | ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | COLOPHON

LDAP_MODIFY(3)          Library Functions Manual          LDAP_MODIFY(3)

NAME         top

       ldap_modify_ext, ldap_modify_ext_s - Perform an LDAP modify
       operation

LIBRARY         top

       OpenLDAP LDAP (libldap, -lldap)

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <ldap.h>

       int ldap_modify_ext(
              LDAP *ld,
              char *dn,
              LDAPMod *mods[],
              LDAPControl **sctrls,
              LDAPControl **cctrls,
              int *msgidp );

       int ldap_modify_ext_s(
              LDAP *ld,
              char *dn,
              LDAPMod *mods[],
              LDAPControl **sctrls,
              LDAPControl **cctrls );

       void ldap_mods_free(
              LDAPMod **mods,
              int freemods );

DESCRIPTION         top

       The routine ldap_modify_ext_s() is used to perform an LDAP modify
       operation.  dn is the DN of the entry to modify, and mods is a
       null-terminated array of modifications to make to the entry.
       Each element of the mods array is a pointer to an LDAPMod
       structure, which is defined below.

            typedef struct ldapmod {
                int mod_op;
                char *mod_type;
                union {
                    char **modv_strvals;
                    struct berval **modv_bvals;
                } mod_vals;
            } LDAPMod;
            #define mod_values mod_vals.modv_strvals
            #define mod_bvalues mod_vals.modv_bvals

       The mod_op field is used to specify the type of modification to
       perform and should be one of LDAP_MOD_ADD, LDAP_MOD_DELETE, or
       LDAP_MOD_REPLACE.  The mod_type and mod_values fields specify the
       attribute type to modify and a null-terminated array of values to
       add, delete, or replace respectively.

       If you need to specify a non-string value (e.g., to add a photo
       or audio attribute value), you should set mod_op to the logical
       OR of the operation as above (e.g., LDAP_MOD_REPLACE) and the
       constant LDAP_MOD_BVALUES.  In this case, mod_bvalues should be
       used instead of mod_values, and it should point to a null-
       terminated array of struct bervals, as defined in <lber.h>.

       For LDAP_MOD_ADD modifications, the given values are added to the
       entry, creating the attribute if necessary.  For LDAP_MOD_DELETE
       modifications, the given values are deleted from the entry,
       removing the attribute if no values remain.  If the entire
       attribute is to be deleted, the mod_values field should be set to
       NULL.  For LDAP_MOD_REPLACE modifications, the attribute will
       have the listed values after the modification, having been
       created if necessary.  All modifications are performed in the
       order in which they are listed.

       ldap_mods_free() can be used to free each element of a NULL-
       terminated array of mod structures.  If freemods is non-zero, the
       mods pointer itself is freed as well.

       ldap_modify_ext_s() returns a code indicating success or, in the
       case of failure, indicating the nature of the failure.  See
       ldap_error(3) for details

       The ldap_modify_ext() operation works the same way as
       ldap_modify_ext_s(), except that it is asynchronous. The integer
       that msgidp points to is set to the message id of the modify
       request.  The result of the operation can be obtained by calling
       ldap_result(3).

       Both ldap_modify_ext() and ldap_modify_ext_s() allows server and
       client controls to be passed in via the sctrls and cctrls
       parameters, respectively.

DEPRECATED INTERFACES         top

       The ldap_modify() and ldap_modify_s() routines are deprecated in
       favor of the ldap_modify_ext() and ldap_modify_ext_s() routines,
       respectively.

       Deprecated interfaces generally remain in the library.  The macro
       LDAP_DEPRECATED can be defined to a non-zero value (e.g.,
       -DLDAP_DEPRECATED=1) when compiling program designed to use
       deprecated interfaces.  It is recommended that developers writing
       new programs, or updating old programs, avoid use of deprecated
       interfaces.  Over time, it is expected that documentation (and,
       eventually, support) for deprecated interfaces to be eliminated.

SEE ALSO         top

       ldap(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
       ⟨https://git.openldap.org/openldap/openldap.git⟩ on 2023-12-22.
       (At that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found
       in the repository was 2023-12-19.)  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_MODIFY(3)

Pages that refer to this page: ldapmodify(1)ldap_add(3)ldap_get_option(3)ldap_rename(3)ldap_result(3)