These routines are used to parse results received from
ldap_result
(3)
or the synchronous LDAP search operation routines
ldap_search_s
(3)
and
ldap_search_st
(3).
The
ldap_first_entry()
routine is used to retrieve the first entry in a chain
of search results. It takes the result as returned by a call to
ldap_result
(3)
or
ldap_search_s
(3)
or
ldap_search_st
(3)
and returns a pointer to the first entry in the result.
This pointer should be supplied on a subsequent call to
ldap_next_entry()
to get the next entry, the result of which should be
supplied to the next call to
ldap_next_entry()
,
etc.
ldap_next_entry()
will return NULL when there are no more entries. The entries returned
from these calls are used in calls to the routines described in
ldap_get_dn
(3),
ldap_first_attribute
(3),
ldap_get_values
(3),
etc.
A count of the number of entries in the search result can be obtained
by calling
ldap_count_entries()
.