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+/* 
+   example code for the ldb database library
+
+   Copyright (C) Brad Hards (bradh@frogmouth.net) 2005-2006
+
+     ** NOTE! The following LGPL license applies to the ldb
+     ** library. This does NOT imply that all of Samba is released
+     ** under the LGPL
+   
+   This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+   modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+   License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+   version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+   This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+   Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+   License along with this library; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+*/
+
+/** \example ldifreader.c
+
+The code below shows a simple LDB application.
+
+It lists / dumps the entries in an LDIF file to standard output.
+
+*/
+
+#include "ldb_includes.h"
+#include "ldb.h"
+#include "ldb_errors.h"
+
+/*
+  ldb_ldif_write takes a function pointer to a custom output
+  function. This version is about as simple as the output function can
+  be. In a more complex example, you'd likely be doing something with
+  the private data function (e.g. holding a file handle).
+*/
+static int vprintf_fn(void *private_data, const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+	int retval;
+	va_list ap;
+
+	va_start(ap, fmt);
+	/* We just write to standard output */
+	retval = vprintf(fmt, ap);
+	va_end(ap);
+	/* Note that the function should return the number of 
+	   bytes written, or a negative error code */
+	return retval;
+}
+  
+int main(int argc, const char **argv)
+{
+	struct ldb_context *ldb;
+	FILE *fileStream;
+	struct ldb_ldif *ldifMsg;
+
+	if (argc != 2) {
+		printf("Usage %s filename.ldif\n", argv[0]);
+		exit(1);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	  This is the always the first thing you want to do in an LDB
+	  application - initialise up the context structure.
+
+	  Note that you can use the context structure as a parent
+	  for talloc allocations as well
+	*/
+	ldb = ldb_init(NULL, NULL);
+
+	fileStream = fopen(argv[1], "r");
+	if (0 == fileStream) {
+		perror(argv[1]);
+		exit(1);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	  We now work through the filestream to get each entry.
+	*/
+	while ( (ldifMsg = ldb_ldif_read_file(ldb, fileStream)) ) {
+		/*
+		  Each message has a particular change type. For Add,
+		  Modify and Delete, this will also appear in the
+		  output listing (as changetype: add, changetype:
+		  modify or changetype:delete, respectively).
+		*/
+		switch (ldifMsg->changetype) {
+		case LDB_CHANGETYPE_NONE:
+			printf("ChangeType: None\n");
+			break;
+		case LDB_CHANGETYPE_ADD:
+			printf("ChangeType: Add\n");
+			break;
+		case LDB_CHANGETYPE_MODIFY:
+			printf("ChangeType: Modify\n");
+			break;
+		case LDB_CHANGETYPE_DELETE:
+			printf("ChangeType: Delete\n");
+			break;
+		default:
+			printf("ChangeType: Unknown\n");
+		}
+
+		/*
+		  We can now write out the results, using our custom
+		  output routine as defined at the top of this file. 
+		*/
+		ldb_ldif_write(ldb, vprintf_fn, NULL, ldifMsg);
+
+		/*
+		  Clean up the message
+		*/
+		ldb_ldif_read_free(ldb, ldifMsg);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	  Clean up the context
+	*/
+	talloc_free(ldb);
+
+	return 0;
+}