activeldap.rb in ruby-activeldap-debug-0.7.2

- old
+ new

@@ -175,11 +175,12 @@
 # with Ruby/ActiveLDAP. It must be called inside of a subclass as shown above.
 # 
 # Below is a much more realistic Group class:
 # 
 #   class Group < ActiveLDAP::Base
-#     ldap_mapping :dnattr => 'cn', :prefix => 'ou=Groups', :classes => ['top', 'posixGroup']
+#     ldap_mapping :dnattr => 'cn', :prefix => 'ou=Groups', :classes => ['top', 'posixGroup']<
+#                  :scope => LDAP::LDAP_SCOPE_ONELEVEL
 #   end
 # 
 # As you can see, this method is used for defining how this class maps in to LDAP.  Let's say that 
 # my LDAP tree looks something like this:
 # 
@@ -203,10 +204,12 @@
 #   ^^         ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 #  :dnattr       |         |
 #              :prefix     |
 #                :base from configuration.rb
 # 
+# :scope tells ActiveLDAP to only search under ou=Groups, and not to look deeper
+# for dnattr matches. (e.g. cn=develop,ou=DevGroups,ou=Groups,dc=dataspill,dc=org)
 # 
 # Something's missing: :classes.  :classes is used to tell Ruby/ActiveLDAP what
 # the minimum requirement is when creating a new object. LDAP uses objectClasses
 # to define what attributes a LDAP object may have. Ruby/ActiveLDAP needs to know
 # what classes are required when creating a new object.  Of course, you can leave
@@ -220,11 +223,14 @@
 # structural objectclasses may not be removed (or replaced).  Setting a sane default
 # may help avoid programmer error later.
 # 
 # :classes isn't the only optional argument.  If :dnattr is left off, it defaults
 # to 'cn'.  If :prefix is left off, it will default to 'ou=CLASSNAME'. In this
-# case, it would be 'ou=Group'.
+# case, it would be 'ou=Group'. There is also a :parent_class option which, when
+# specified, adds a method call parent() which will return the 
+# parent_class.new(parent_dn). The parent_dn is the objects dn without the dnattr
+# pair.
 # 
 # :classes should be an Array. :dnattr should be a String and so should :prefix.
 # 
 # 
 # ===== belongs_to
@@ -484,16 +490,24 @@
 #   whether the :password_block should be called on each reconnect.
 # * :allow_anonymous determines whether anonymous binding is allowed if other
 #   bind methods fail
 # * :try_sasl, when true, tells ActiveLDAP to attempt a SASL-GSSAPI bind
 # * :sasl_quiet, when true, tells the SASL libraries to not spew messages to STDOUT
+# * :method indicates whether to use :ssl, :tls, or :plain
+# * :retries - indicates the number of attempts to reconnect that will be undertaken when a stale connection occurs. -1 means infinite.
+# * :retry_wait - seconds to wait before retrying a connection
+# * :ldap_scope - dictates how to find objects. (Default: ONELEVEL)
+# * :return_objects - indicates whether find/find_all will return objects or just the distinguished name attribute value of the matches. Rails users will find this useful.
+# * :timeout - time in seconds - defaults to disabled. This CAN interrupt search() requests. Be warned.
+# * :retry_on_timeout - whether to reconnect when timeouts occur. Defaults to true
+# See lib/configuration.rb for defaults for each option
 # 
 # Base.connect both connects and binds in one step. It follows roughly the following approach:
 # 
 # * Connect to host:port using :method
 # 
-# * If user and password_block, attempt to bind with credentials.
+# * If user and password_block/password, attempt to bind with credentials.
 # * If that fails or no password_block and anonymous allowed, attempt to bind
 #   anonymously.
 # * If that fails, error out.
 #
 # On connect, the configuration options passed in are stored in an internal class variable
@@ -905,16 +919,21 @@
 # Blanket warning hiding. Remove for debugging
 $VERBOSE, verbose = false, $VERBOSE
 
 require 'activeldap/ldap'
 require 'activeldap/schema2'
+if RUBY_PLATFORM.match('linux')
+  require 'activeldap/timeout'
+else
+  require 'activeldap/timeout_stub'
+end
 require 'activeldap/base'
 require 'activeldap/associations'
 require 'activeldap/configuration'
 
 
 module ActiveLDAP
-  VERSION = "0.7.1"
+  VERSION = "0.7.2"
 end
 
 ActiveLDAP::Base.class_eval do
   include ActiveLDAP::Configuration
   include ActiveLDAP::Associations