Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.1 - PLUG-IN Manual page 352

Functions for Dealing with Filters
See Also
slapi_str2filter()
slapi_pblock_get()
slapi_filter_get_attribute_type()
Gets the attribute type for all simple filter choices.
Syntax
#include "slapi-plugin.h"
int slapi_filter_get_attribute_type( Slapi_Filter *f, char **type );
Parameters
This function takes the following parameters:
f
type
Returns
This function returns the attribute type of the filter.
Description
This function gets the attribute type for all simple filter choices:
• LDAP_FILTER_GE
• LDAP_FILTER_LE
• LDAP_FILTER_APPROX
• LDAP_FILTER_EQUALITY
• LDAP_FILTER_SUBSTRINGS
• LDAP_FILTER_PRESENT
• LDAP_FILTER_EXTENDED
• LDAP_FILTER_AND
• LDAP_FILTER_OR
• LDAP_FILTER_NOT
A filter such as (
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Filter from which you wish to get the substring values.
Pointer to the attribute type of the filter.
), will return the type
mail-foo
.
mail