GNU bug report logs - #64089
30.0.50; `ldap-search' errors out with `wrong-type-argument listp' when called WITHDN == t

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jens Schmidt <jschmidt4gnu <at> vodafonemail.de>

Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2023 21:29:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Fixed in version 30.0.50

Done: Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin <at> fastmail.fm>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #41 received at 64089 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jens Schmidt <jschmidt4gnu <at> vodafonemail.de>
To: Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin <at> fastmail.fm>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 64089 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#64089: 30.0.50; `ldap-search' errors out with
 `wrong-type-argument listp' when called WITHDN == t
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 09:43:15 +0200

On 2023-06-18  01:14, Filipp Gunbin wrote:

> - the code before the fix prepended dn as string (and it's not 
> totally broken - you can skip attribute translation via 
> var/defcustom, in which case the error should not be triggered)

The problem is that WITHDN == t IMHO can mean various things, each
interpretation having some valid reasons (note that your implementation
differs from the original one as well!)

- My proposal:

  ((("dn" "cn=JENS_SCHMIDT,L=REGION,DC=COMPANY,DC=COM")
    ("mail"   "jens.schmidt <at> company.com")))

  I'd like to have the distinguished name available in EUDC eventually
  to do fun things with it.  Traversing our (and other's?) company's
  hierarchy, to be precise.

- Your proposal:

  (("cn=JENS_SCHMIDT,L=REGION,DC=COMPANY,DC=COM"
    ("mail"   "jens.schmidt <at> company.com")))

  This makes an alist out of the overall result, also fine.

- The original author's (Gerd's) possible intent, since he never
  actually split off the leading "dn":

   (("dn: cn=JENS_SCHMIDT,L=REGION,DC=COMPANY,DC=COM"
     ("mail"   "jens.schmidt <at> company.com")))

  Not sure what this would be good for, though.

I think we should account (in emacs-master) for these various options 
and make WITHDN take various values:

  `cons'   - return my interpretation
  `string' - return yours
  t        - return Gerd's

Or whatever.  In any case, I'll open a new bug for that to continue this 
discussion.
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