These routines are used to step through the messages in a result chain
received from
ldap_result
(3)
.
For search operations, the result chain can contain referral, entry
and result messages. The
ldap_msgtype
(3)
function can be used to distinguish between the different message types.
The
ldap_first_message()
routine is used to retrieve the first 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 message in the result chain.
This pointer should be supplied on a subsequent call to
ldap_next_message()
to get the next message, the result of which should be
supplied to the next call to
ldap_next_message()
,
etc.
ldap_next_message()
will return NULL when there are no more messages.
These functions are useful when using routines like
ldap_parse_result
(3)
that only operate on the first result in the chain.
A count of the number of messages in the result chain can be obtained
by calling
ldap_count_messages()
.
It can also be used to count the number of remaining messages in a chain
if called with a message, entry or reference returned by
ldap_first_message()
,
ldap_next_message()
,
ldap_first_entry
(3)
,
ldap_next_entry
(3)
,
ldap_first_reference
(3)
,
ldap_next_reference
(3)
.