[Catalyst] RFC: Catalyst::Model::LDAP

[Christopher Heschong]

Yay!  Once this stabilizes, someone should port the  
Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::LDAP class to use this instead.  I  
will be testing this tomorrow and will provide a little more feedback  
then.

As a side note, I've discovered that key-based caching is fairly  
important in Catalyst for LDAP model classes.  Take for instance a  
table which has a user attribute which might have a has_a  
relationship to a MyApp::M::LDAP object.  If 20 objects all have the  
same user attribute, you end up with 20 distinct, yet identical  
copies an LDAP user object, along with the associated overhead of 20  
calls to the LDAP database.   Ouch.

20 calls to ->search('(sn=Test)') should ideally return 20 references  
to a single object, rather than 20 distinct but identical objects.   
Cache::FastMmap works pretty well for this for me.

IMHO that will be a vital addition for use within a Catalyst-centric  
development perspective.


On Aug 29, 2005, at 10:52 AM, Daniel Westermann-Clark wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if there is any general interest for a
> Catalyst::Model::LDAP.  The issue was raised in June [1], but I don't
> see any pointers to a release in the archives.
>
> For the time being I've made a very simple wrapper around Net::LDAP's
> search method.  This can be found at:
>
> http://dev.webadmin.ufl.edu/~dwc/perl/Catalyst-Model-LDAP-0.01.tar.gz
>
> The package also contains a Catalyst::Helper to generate model
> classes.
>
> There's obviously room for improvement (connection handling, other
> LDAP methods, etc.), but I wanted to solicit feedback early in the
> process.
>
>
> [1] http://lists.rawmode.org/pipermail/catalyst/2005-June/000712.html
>
> -- 
> Daniel Westermann-Clark
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