These routines are used to step through the continuation references in a
result chain received from
ldap_result
(3)
or the synchronous LDAP search operation routines.
The
ldap_first_reference()
routine is used to retrieve the first reference message in a
result chain. It takes the result as returned by a call to
ldap_result
(3)
,
ldap_search_s
(3)
or
ldap_search_st
(3)
and returns a pointer to the first reference message in the
result chain.
This pointer should be supplied on a subsequent call to
ldap_next_reference()
to get the next reference message, the result of which should be
supplied to the next call to
ldap_next_reference()
,
etc.
ldap_next_reference()
will return NULL when there are no more reference messages.
The reference messages returned from these calls are used by
ldap_parse_reference
(3)
to extract referrals and controls.
A count of the number of reference messages in the search result can be
obtained by calling
ldap_count_references()
.
It can also be used to count the number of reference messages remaining
in a result chain.