A DSML Search Request

Example 10–5 shows a DSML base object search request on the root DSE entry.

Example 10–5 DSML Search Request

POST /dsml HTTP/1.1
HOST: hostname
Content-Length: 1081
Content-Type: text/xml
SOAPAction: ""
Connection: close
<?xml version=’1.0’ encoding=’UTF-8’?\>
<soap-env:Envelope
   xmlns:xsd=’http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema’
   xmlns:xsi=’http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance’
   xmlns:soap-env=’http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/’
   \>
   <soap-env:Body\>
      <batchRequest
        xmlns=’urn:oasis:names:tc:DSML:2:0:core’
        requestID=’Batch of search requests’
        \>
        <searchRequest
            dn=""
            requestID="search on Root DSE"
            scope="baseObject"
            derefAliases="neverDerefAliases"
            typesOnly="false"
            \>
            <filter\>
               <present name="objectClass"/\>
            </filter\>
            <attributes\>
               <attribute name="namingContexts"/\>
               <attribute name="supportedLDAPversion"/\>
               <attribute name="vendorName"/\>
               <attribute name="vendorVersion"/\>
               <attribute name="supportedSASLMechanisms"/\>
            </attributes\>
        </searchRequest\>
      </batchRequest\>
   </soap-env:Body\>
</soap-env:Envelope\>

• dn=""requestID="search on Root DSE"specifies that the search operation requests data under the root DSE entry (empty DN) and is identified with an optional request ID attribute.

• scope="baseObject"specifies that the search is a base object search.

• derefAliases="neverDerefAliases"specifies that the aliases should not be dereferenced while searching or locating the base object of the search. This is the only derefAliases value supported by Directory Server.

• typesOnly="false"specifies that both the attribute names and their values be returned. typesOnly="true" would return attribute names only. The default value for this attribute is false.

  For the entry to match the filter, the presence of objectclass filter is used as follows.

  <filter\>
     <present name="objectClass"/\>
  </filter\>

  This is equivalent to the LDAP filter string (objectclass=*). The filter is followed by the list of desired attributes.

  <attributes\>
     <attribute name="namingContexts"/\>
     <attribute name="supportedLDAPversion"/\>
     <attribute name="vendorName"/\>
     <attribute name="vendorVersion"/\>
     <attribute name="supportedSASLMechanisms"/\>
  </attributes\>

Example 10–6 DSML Search Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-control: no-cache
Connection: close
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:21:43 GMT
Accept-Ranges: none
Server: Sun-Java(tm)-System-Directory/6.2
Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
Content-Length: 1287

<?xml version=’1.0’ encoding=’UTF-8’ ?\>
<soap-env:Envelope
   xmlns:xsd=’http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema’
   xmlns:xsi=’http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance’
   xmlns:soap-env=’http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/’
   \>
<soap-env:Body\>
<batchResponse
   xmlns:xsd=’http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema’
   xmlns:xsi=’http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance’
   xmlns=’urn:oasis:names:tc:DSML:2:0:core’
   requestID=’Batch of search requests’
   \>
   <searchResponse requestID=’search on Root DSE’\>
   <searchResultEntry\>
      <attr name=’namingContexts’\>
      <value\>dc=example,dc=com</value\>
      </attr\>
      <attr name=’supportedLDAPVersion’\>
      <value\>2</value\>
      <value\>3</value\>
      </attr\>
      <attr name=’vendorName’\>
      <value\>Sun Microsystems, Inc.</value\>
      </attr\>
      <attr name=’vendorVersion’\>
      <value\>Sun-Java(tm)-System-Directory/6.2</value\>
      </attr\>
      <attr name=’supportedSASLMechanisms’\>
      <value\>EXTERNAL</value\>
      <value\>GSSAPI</value\>
      <value\>DIGEST-MD5</value\>
      </attr\>
   </searchResultEntry\>
   <searchResultDone\>
      <resultCode code=’0’ descr=’success’/\>
   </searchResultDone\>
   </searchResponse\>
</batchResponse\>
</soap-env:Body\>
</soap-env:Envelope\>