Returning sorted sets

[nick at brainstorm.co.uk]

thanks for the anwer.  i 'm using openldap (not sure if this has server
side sorting), but if it does, it may be worth me looking into the jndi
before using caching.  boo hiss ;-)

nick

Michael Ströder wrote:
> 
> nick at Brainstorm.co.uk wrote:
> >
> > Ideally, I want my search interface to return just 20 records at a time,
> > which are a sorted subset of a larger result set.  Does the LDAP
> > protocol allow this?
> 
> The right solution would require deploying two LDAP extended
> controls:
> - paged results (OID 1.2.840.113556.1.4.319, see RFC2696)
> - Server Side Sorting of Search Results
>   (OID 1.2.840.113556.1.4.473, see RFC2891)
> 
> But unfortunately
> 1. with python-ldap you can't currently make use of extended
>    controls and
> 2. the server has to support both controls (which you can
>    check by looking at attribute supportedControl of its
>    RootDSE).
> 
> > I'm trying to think how else to do a multiple-page
> > search interface, ala current search engines with the footer
> 
> Well, you could retrieve all search results, sort them on the client
> side and cache it for the next page hits. But take care of security
> considerations!
> 
> My web2ldap cheats: It simply invokes a async search and retrieves
> the search results for the currently viewed page without doing any
> sorting. I considered the user to give up looking through the search
> results on the first page anyway. ;-)
> 
> Ciao, Michael.

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