Slapi_Value - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 7.0 - PLUG-IN Manual

Description
Slapi_UniqueID
unique identifier of a directory entry. All directory entries contain a unique
identifier. Unlike the distinguished name (DN), the unique identifier of an entry
never changes, providing a good way to refer unambiguously to an entry in a
distributed/replicated environment.

Slapi_Value

Represents the value of the attribute in a directory entry.
Syntax
#include "slapi-plugin.h"
typedef struct slapi_value Slapi_Value;
Description
Slapi_Value
an attribute in a directory entry.
The following table summarizes the front-end API functions that you can call to
work with directory entry values.
To ...
Compare a value.
Duplicate a value.
Free a Slapi_Value structure
from memory.
Get the berval structure of the
value.
Convert the value of an integer.
Get the length of a value.
Get the actual length of the value.
Convert a value into a long integer.
Return the value as a string. The
value returned may not be
null-terminated.
Convert the value into an unsigned
integer.
is the data type for an opaque structure that represents the
is the data type for an opaque structure that represents the value of
Summary of Data Types and Structures
... Call this function
slapi_value_compare()
slapi_value_dup()
slapi_value_free()
slapi_value_get_berval()
slapi_value_get_int()
slapi_value_get_int()
slapi_value_get_length()
slapi_value_get_long()
slapi_value_get_string())
slapi_value_get_uint()
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