compare operation

The LDAP compare operation can be used to determine whether a specified entry contains a given attribute value. The compare request protocol op is defined as follows:

CompareRequest ::= [APPLICATION 14] SEQUENCE {
     entry           LDAPDN,
     ava             AttributeValueAssertion }

AttributeValueAssertion ::= SEQUENCE {
     attributeDesc   AttributeDescription,
     assertionValue  AssertionValue }

The elements of the request include the following:

• The DN of the entry in which the comparison is to be made.

• The name of the attribute in which the comparison is to be made.

• The assertion value to try to find in the specified attribute.

The response to an LDAP compare operation is an LDAP result element as defined below:

CompareResponse ::= [APPLICATION 15] LDAPResult