Slapi_Matchingruleentry - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 7.0 - PLUG-IN Manual

To ...
Determine if an entry matches a filter's criteria.
Get the filter type.
Get the attribute type and value used for
comparison in a filter (only applicable to
LDAP_FILTER_EQUALITY,
LDAP_FILTER_GE, LDAP_FILTER_LE, and
LDAP_FILTER_APPROX searches).
Get the type of attribute that the filter is
searching for (only applicable to
LDAP_FILTER_PRESENT searches).
Get the substring pattern used for the filter
(applicable only to
LDAP_FILTER_SUBSTRING searches).
Convert a string representation of a filter to a
filter of the data type Slapi_Filter.
Construct a new LDAP_FILTER_AND,
LDAP_FILTER_OR, or LDAP_FILTER_NOT
filter from other filters.
Get the components of a filter (only applicable
to LDAP_FILTER_AND, LDAP_FILTER_OR,
and LDAP_FILTER_NOT searches).
Free a filter from memory.

Slapi_MatchingRuleEntry

Represents a matching rule.
Syntax
#include "slapi-plugin.h"
typedef struct slapi_matchingRuleEntry Slapi_MatchingRuleEntry;
Description
Slapi_MatchingRuleEntry
represents a matching rule.
The following table summarizes the front-end API functions that you can call to
work with matching rules.
... Call this function
slapi_filter_test_ext()
slapi_filter_get_choice()
slapi_filter_get_ava()
slapi_filter_get_type()
slapi_filter_get_subfilt()
slapi_str2filter())
slapi_filter_join()
slapi_filter_list_first()
slapi_filter_list_next()
slapi_filter_free()
is the data type for an opaque structure that
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