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Chapter 1 Understanding Server Plug-Ins
Chapter 2 Writing and Compiling Plug-Ins
Chapter 3 Calling the Front-End API Functions
Chapter 4 Quick Start
Chapter 5 Writing Database Plug-Ins
Chapter 6 Writing Pre/Post-Operation Plug-Ins
Chapter 7 Defining Functions for LDAP Operations
Chapter 8 Defining Functions for Database Operations
Chapter 9 Defining Functions for Authentication
Chapter 10 Writing Entry Store/Fetch Plug-Ins
Chapter 11 Writing Extended Operation Plug-Ins
Chapter 12 Writing Matching Rule Plug-Ins
Chapter 13 Data Type and Structure Reference
Chapter 14 Function Reference
Chapter 15 Parameter Reference
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 slapi_filter_get_type()
(Applies only to filters of the type LDAP_FILTER_PRESENT) Gets the attribute type specified in the filter.

Syntax

#include "slapi-plugin.h"
int slapi_filter_get_type( Slapi_Filter *f, char **type );

Parameters

The function has the following parameters:
f

Filter that you want to get the substring values from.
type

Pointer to the attribute type of the filter.

Returns

0 if successful, or -1 if the filter is not one of the types listed above.

Description

Filters of the type LDAP_FILTER_PRESENT generally determine if a specified attribute is assigned a value. For example:

(mail=*)

This filter finds entries that have a value assigned to the mail attribute.

Call the slapi_filter_get_type() function to get the attribute type from this filter. In the case of the example above, calling the slapi_filter_get_type() function gets the attribute type mail.

Example

[To be added]

See Also

 

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