NAME
    Dancer::Plugin::LDAP - LDAP plugin for Dancer micro framework

VERSION
    Version 0.0040

SYNOPSIS
        use Dancer;
        use Dancer::Plugin::LDAP;

        # Calling the ldap keyword returns you a LDAP handle
        $ldap = ldap;

        # Use convenience methods for retrieving, updating and deleting LDAP entries
        $account = ldap->quick_select({dn => 'uid=racke@linuxia.de,dc=linuxia,dc=de'});

        ldap->quick_update('uid=racke@linuxia.de,dc=linuxia,dc=de', {l => 'Vienna'});

        ldap->quick_delete('uid=racke@linuxia.de,dc=linuxia,dc=de');

DESCRIPTION
    Provides an easy way to obtain a connected LDAP handle by simply calling
    the ldap keyword within your Dancer application.

    Returns a Dancer::Plugin::LDAP::Handle object, which is a subclass of a
    Net::LDAP handle object, so it does everything you'd expect to do with
    Net::LDAP, but also adds a few convenience methods. See the
    documentation for Dancer::Plugin::LDAP::Handle for full details of
    those.

    This plugin is compatible to Dancer 1 and Dancer 2.

  TEXT SEARCHES
    Need to run a text search across your LDAP directory? This plugin
    provides a quick way to do that:

        for (qw/uid sn givenName c l/) {
            $search{$_} = [substr => $args{search}];
        }

        @entries = ldap->quick_select({-or => \%search});

  UTF-8
    Attribute values returned by the Dancer::Plugin::LDAP::Handle method are
    automatically converted to UTF-8 strings.

CONFIGURATION
        plugins:
            LDAP:
                uri: 'ldap://127.0.0.1:389/'
                base: 'dc=linuxia,dc=de'
                bind: cn=admin,dc=linuxia,dc=de
                password: nevairbe

AUTHOR
    Stefan Hornburg (Racke), `<racke at linuxia.de>'

CONTRIBUTING
    This module is developed on Github at:

    https://github.com/racke/Dancer-Plugin-LDAP

    Feel free to fork the repo and submit pull requests! Also, it makes
    sense to watch the repo on GitHub for updates.

    Feedback and bug reports are always appreciated. Even a quick mail to
    let me know the module is useful to you would be very nice - it's nice
    to know if code is being actively used.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    David Precious for providing the great Dancer::Plugin::Database, which
    helped me a lot in terms of ideas and code to write this plugin.

    Marco Pessotto for fixing update of attributes with empty value.

BUGS
    Please report any bugs or feature requests to `bug-dancer-plugin-ldap at
    rt.cpan.org', or through the web interface at
    http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Dancer-Plugin-LDAP. I
    will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress
    on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT
    You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

        perldoc Dancer::Plugin::LDAP

    You can also look for information at:

    * RT: CPAN's request tracker (report bugs here)
        http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Dancer-Plugin-LDAP

    * AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation
        http://annocpan.org/dist/Dancer-Plugin-LDAP

    * CPAN Ratings
        http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Dancer-Plugin-LDAP

    * Search CPAN
        http://search.cpan.org/dist/Dancer-Plugin-LDAP/

    You can find the author on IRC in the channel `#dancer' on
    <irc.perl.org>.

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT
    Copyright 2011-2013 Stefan Hornburg (Racke).

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published
    by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

    See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.

SEE ALSO
    Dancer

    Net::LDAP