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#198012 - 2010-03-09 06:44 PM Possible "attribute with hyphen" bug
Christoph_Peus Christoph_Peus Fresh Scripter Registered: 2007-05-14 Posts: 5	Hi experts, a command like this: $User.uwh-department1 = $value doesn't work in Kixtart, because Kixtart does not recognize the hyphen as part of the attributes name. You will get an error message: ERROR : unknown command [department1]! I think this should work, as hyphens are used in default Active Directory attribute names as well. But for the moment I would really appreciate a hint for a workaround, cause I've created several new attributes in the Active Directory Schema, which cannot be deleted or name-changed afterwards!!! Thank you! Christoph
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#198013 - 2010-03-09 08:45 PM Re: Possible "attribute with hyphen" bug [Re: Christoph_Peus]
Allen Allen KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-04-19 Posts: 4562 Loc: USA	As you've seen, the hypen is used for subtraction in kix. Unless someone knows a way to escape/force the hypen, you might be able to use execute to make it work. Untested, each of these is slightly different, so try and see how different ones work: Code: $RC=execute("$$User.uwh" + "-" + "department1=" + $value) $RC=execute("$$User.uwh-department1=" + $value) $RC=execute("$" + "User.uwh-department1=" + $value) Edited by Allen (2010-03-09 08:58 PM)
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#198033 - 2010-03-11 07:55 AM Re: Possible "attribute with hyphen" bug [Re: Allen]
Christoph_Peus Christoph_Peus Fresh Scripter Registered: 2007-05-14 Posts: 5	Hi Allen, thanks for your fast reply! I tried all of these but unfortunately none worked. I guess that the source of the problem is the Kixtart execution routine itself, not the parsing of the source code. I worked around the problem for now with "ldifde", which writes a properly prepared LDIF file to the Active Directory LDAP server, but this is too inconvenient to take this as a general solution. I think Kixtart should be modified to allow commands with hyphen, at least when the command is COM related. Since I will have to write several scripts which work with this type of LDAP attribute shortly, I fear that I will have to use another scripting language. Sigh... Regards Christoph
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#198036 - 2010-03-11 01:38 PM Re: Possible "attribute with hyphen" bug [Re: Christoph_Peus]
Richard H. Richard H. Administrator Registered: 2000-01-24 Posts: 4946 Loc: Leatherhead, Surrey, UK	Unfortunately the interpreter cannot work with operators in properties or any other type of unprotected string including things like file paths. The work-around (if the object supports it) is to reference the property through a collection as a proper string, something like: Code: $User.fields("uwh-department1").Value = $value or Code: $User.properties("uwh-department1").Value = $value Obviously the "fields"/"properties" depends on the object definition.
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#198037 - 2010-03-11 02:29 PM Re: Possible "attribute with hyphen" bug [Re: Richard H.]
Allen Allen KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-04-19 Posts: 4562 Loc: USA	How many attributes are we talking here? No option to rename them without a hypen, and use something like the underscore?
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#198038 - 2010-03-11 03:20 PM Re: Possible "attribute with hyphen" bug [Re: Allen]
Richard H. Richard H. Administrator Registered: 2000-01-24 Posts: 4946 Loc: Leatherhead, Surrey, UK	Here is an example of how to GET the value for a troublesome property with an operator in the name: Code: Break ON $objSysInfo = CreateObject("ADSystemInfo") $strUserDN = $objSysInfo.userName $oADObject = GetObject("LDAP://" + $strUserDN) $sAttribute="uwh-department1" "Current value of '"+$sAttribute+"'="+$oADObject.Get($sAttribute)+@CRLF The corresponding action to write a property is .Put() or .PutEx() followed by .SetInfo() More information here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa705950(VS.85).aspx Edited by Richard H. (2010-03-11 03:25 PM) Edit Reason: Changed term "attribute" to "property" as it's more appropriate
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