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Getting all the attributes of an entry

Typically, you do not use a query that gets all the attributes in an entry. Such a query would return attributes that are used only by the directory server. However, you can get all the attributes by specifying attributes="*" in your query.

If you do this, ColdFusion returns the results in a structure in which each element contains a single attribute name-value pair. The tag does not return a query object. ColdFusion does this because LDAP directory entries, unlike the rows in a relational table, vary depending on their object class.

For example, the following code retrieves the contents of the Airius directory:

<cfldap name="GetList"
server=#myServer#
action="query"
attributes="*"
scope="subtree"
start="o=airius.com"
sort="sn,cn">

This tag returns entries for all the people in the organization and entries for all the groups. The group entries have a different object class, and therefore different attributes from the person entries. If ColdFusion returned both types of entries in one query object, some rows would have only the group-specific attribute values and the other rows would have only person-specific attribute values. Instead, ColdFusion returns a structure in which each attribute is an entry.


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