Paging not working as documented about node-ldapjs

[driverjb]

Thank you for that! I was writing the code correctly, but I wasn't understanding my LDAP search properly. Rather than expect it to automatically page the large "memberOf" attribute of the single group that is returned, I need to run two searches. One to get the group data, and a second search to get the entire "memberOf" list for that group. In that case, the paging worked as expected.

Thanks again!

[jsumners]

Please see #886. It looks to me like the paged option is working correctly.

sizeLimit is specifically tied to the sizeLimit option of the search request. It does not set the maximum number of results per search page. If you wish to manage how many results are returned per page, see

node-ldapjs/lib/client/client.js

Lines 618 to 629 in a37daf1

	if (options.paged) {
	// Perform automated search paging
	const pageOpts = typeof (options.paged) === 'object' ? options.paged : {}
	let size = 100 // Default page size
	if (pageOpts.pageSize > 0) {
	size = pageOpts.pageSize
	} else if (options.sizeLimit > 1) {
	// According to the RFC, servers should ignore the paging control if
	// pageSize >= sizelimit. Some might still send results, but it's safer
	// to stay under that figure when assigning a default value.
	size = options.sizeLimit - 1
	}

[driverjb]

Okay I see that. However, that still doesn't really answer how to get all the search results using paging.

[jsumners]

The test shows how to collect the results. If you want to reduce memory, then you'd use the page event to know when the end of a page has been encountered and manage your in-memory storage accordingly.

node-ldapjs/lib/client/search_pager.js

Lines 16 to 22 in a37daf1

	* 1. page - Emitted whenever the end of a result page is encountered.
	* If this is the last page, 'end' will also be emitted.
	* The event passes two arguments:
	* 1. The result object (similar to 'end')
	* 2. A callback function optionally used to continue the search
	* operation if the pagePause option was specified during
	* initialization.