On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 09:34:56PM -0800, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Dec 2012, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
> >It wouldn't be hard to add the capability to return the content of
> >a record. Please open a feature request via SourceForge and we can
> >see about adding it for 2.8.0.
>
> Since this will need to be generic, it will need to be able to
> handle text returns from data sets (colon-separated fields) as well
> as binary (e.g., an LDAP or SQL backed data set that has binary
> content in some columns, such as DER keys).
>
> I'm thinking right now of a Lua function that will return multiple
> values or nil depending on whether there was a hit. Does that seem
> reasonable?
There also needs to be a way to distinguish lack of entry from some
other error. Commented in the FR.
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