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Functions for Managing Entries
344 Netscape Directory Server Plug-In Programmer’s Guide • December 2003
Returns
This function returns one of the following values:
•
1
if
dn
is the root DSE.
•
0
if
dn
is not the root DSE.
slapi_str2entry()
Converts an LDIF description of a directory entry (a string value) into an entry of
the
Slapi_Entry
type.
Syntax
#include “slapi-plugin.h”
Slapi_Entry *slapi_str2entry( char *s, int flags );
Parameters
This function takes the following parameters:
The value of the
flags
argument can be one of the following values:
dn
The DN that you want to test to see if it is the root DSE entry.
s
Description of an entry that you want to convert to
Slapi_Entry
.
flags
One or more flags specifying how the entry should be generated
SLAPI_STR2ENTRY_REMOVEDUPVALS
Removes any duplicate values in the attributes
of the entry.
SLAPI_STR2ENTRY_ADDRDNVALS
Adds the relative distinguished name (RDN)
components (for example,
uid=bjensen
) as
attributes of the entry.