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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 ldbreader.c
+
+The code below shows a simple LDB application.
+
+It lists / dumps the records in a LDB database 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;
+	const char *expression = "(dn=*)";
+	struct ldb_result *resultMsg;
+	int i;
+
+	/*
+	  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);
+
+	/*
+	  We now open the database. In this example we just hard code the connection path.
+
+	  Also note that the database is being opened read-only. This means that the 
+	  call will fail unless the database already exists. 
+	*/
+	if (LDB_SUCCESS != ldb_connect(ldb, "tdb://tdbtest.ldb", LDB_FLG_RDONLY, NULL) ){
+		printf("Problem on connection\n");
+		exit(-1);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	  At this stage we have an open database, and can start using it. It is opened
+	  read-only, so a query is possible. 
+
+	  We construct a search that just returns all the (sensible) contents. You can do
+	  quite fine grained results with the LDAP search syntax, however it is a bit
+	  confusing to start with. See RFC2254.
+	*/
+	if (LDB_SUCCESS != ldb_search(ldb, NULL, LDB_SCOPE_DEFAULT,
+				      expression, NULL, &resultMsg) ) {
+		printf("Problem in search\n");
+		exit(-1);
+	}
+	
+	printf("%i records returned\n", resultMsg->count);
+
+	/*
+	  We can now iterate through the results, writing them out
+	  (to standard output) with our custom output routine as defined
+	  at the top of this file
+	*/
+	for (i = 0; i < resultMsg->count; ++i) {
+		struct ldb_ldif ldifMsg;
+
+		printf("Message: %i\n", i+1);
+		
+		ldifMsg.changetype = LDB_CHANGETYPE_NONE;
+		ldifMsg.msg = resultMsg->msgs[i];
+		ldb_ldif_write(ldb, vprintf_fn, NULL, &ldifMsg);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	  There are two objects to clean up - the result from the 
+	  ldb_search() query, and the original ldb context.
+	*/
+	talloc_free(resultMsg);
+
+	talloc_free(ldb);
+
+	return 0;
+}