description of the ldapanswer XML definition

The extended LDAP sampler was built to support testing for very complex testpurposes. It was aimed at supporting the LDAP operations as close as possible. As the results are not passed back in a user-readable form, I invented my own xml definition to construct an answer in xml encoding, so the results may be parsed with regextracter or alike functions.

1 Global overview

The global structure is as follows:

1.1 The operation section

The operation section defines the operation as it is sent to the LDAP Server. The following tags (with a short explanation) are used

1.2 Response message section

As the response code, the official LDAP error definitions are used, so this section contains the error message as returned from the server. A successful request always returns "Success" as the response message. The following tag is used:

1.3 Response code section

As the response code, the official LDAP error definitions are used, so this section contains the error number as returned from the server. A successful request always returns 0 (zero) as the response code. The following tag is used:

The following tag is used:

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