Module ldap3::controls

Control construction and parsing.

A control can be associated with a request or a response. Several common controls, such as PagedResults, are implemented directly by this library. If an implemented control has the same form for the request and the response, there will be a single structure for both. (This is the case for PagedResults.) If the response control is different, its name will consist of the request control name with the Resp suffix.

A request control can be created by instantiating its structure and converting it to ASN.1 with into() when passing the instance or constructing the request control vector in the call to with_controls(). A third-party control must implement the conversion from an instance of itself to RawControl, a general form of control.

RawControl, together with an optional instance of ControlType, forms the type Control; a vector of Controls is part of the result of all LDAP operation which return one.

The first element of Control will have a value if the parser recognizes the control's OID as one that is implemented by the library itself. Since the list of implemented controls is expected to grow, matching those values must be done through reexported types in the types module, and cannot be exhaustive.

A recognized response control can be parsed by calling parse() on the instance of RawControl representing it. A third-party control must implement the ControlParser trait to support this interface.

Modules

types

Control type enum and variant names.

Structs

Assertion	Assertion control (RFC 4528).
Control	Response control.
CriticalControl	Wrapper for a control marked as critical.
PagedResults	Paged Results control (RFC 2696).
PostRead	Post-Read request control (RFC 4527).
PreRead	Pre-Read request control (RFC 4527).
ProxyAuth	Proxy Authorization control (RFC 4370).
RawControl	Generic control.
ReadEntryResp	Response for Pre-Read and Post-Read controls.
RelaxRules	Relax Rules control (draft specification).

Traits

ControlParser	Conversion trait for response controls.
MakeCritical	Mark a control as critical.

Type Definitions

PostReadResp	Type alias for Post-Read response.
PreReadResp	Type alias for Pre-Read response.