Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 7.1 - PLUG-IN PROGRAMMERS Manual page 188

Summary of Data Types and Structures
Code Example 14-1
Slapi_PBlock *rcpb;
LDAPMod attribute1;
LDAPMod *list_of_attrs[2];
char *mail_values[] = { "bab@example.com", NULL };
char *dn;
...
/* Identify the entry that you want changed */
dn = "cn=Barbara Jensen, ou=Product Development, l=US,
dc=example,dc=com";
/* Specify that you want to replace the value of an attribute */
attribute1.mod_op = LDAP_MOD_REPLACE;
/* Specify that you want to change the value of the mail attribute
*/
attribute1.mod_type = "mail";
/* Specify the new value of the mail attribute */
attribute1.mod_values = mail_values;
/* Add the change to the list of attributes that you want changed
*/
list_of_attrs[0] = &attribute_change;
list_of_attrs[1] = NULL;
/* Update the entry with the change */
rcpb = slapi_modify_internal( dn, list_of_attrs, NULL, 1 );
...
The following table summarizes the front-end API functions that you can call to
specify changes to an attribute in an directory entry.
To ...
Translate from entry to LDAPMod.
Dump the contents of an LDAPMod
to the server log.
Get a reference to the LDAPMod in a
Slapi_Mod structure.
Retrieve the reference to the
LDAPMod contained in a
Slapi_Mod structure.
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Sample Code for Changing the Email Address of a User's Entry
... Call this function
slapi_entry2mods()
slapi_mod_dump()
slapi_mod_get_ldapmod_byref()
slapi_mod_get_ldapmod_passout()