TypeError: req.toObject is not a function

[ToolmanP]

I was trying to run a ldap server instance referred by the example provided by the ldapjs documentation with Node.js v20.

server.add('ou=users, o=myhost', pre, (req, res, next) => {
...
const entry = req.toObject().attributes;
...
}

Then I tried to invoke this handler by invoking the LDAPAdd provided by the OpenLDAP.

However, the requests fails. I tried to hook up the server with pino logger and this time it provides me with an error message.

{
"msg":"127.0.0.1:57282::1 uncaught exception: TypeError: req.toObject is not a function at Server.<anonymous>..."
}

Is this example out of date in v3 or did I miss something here?

[ToolmanP]

Ok, I switch the version to v2 and it works correctly.

[jsumners]

Is this example out of date

Yes. The current equivalent would be entry.pojo.attributes. But it would be better to use the object itself to access the attributes, e.g. entry.attributes.

[advgal]

The examples/inmemory.js does not work with V3

`server.add(SUFFIX, authorize, function (req, res, next) {
const dn = req.dn.toString()

if (db[dn]) { return next(new ldap.EntryAlreadyExistsError(dn)) }

db[dn] = req.toObject().attributes
res.end()
return next()
})`

does not work. In V3 there is no AddRequest object and no toObject function anymore.

Also the code in http://ldapjs.org/server.html#add is wrong for the same reason.