Ruby - multidimensional hash - ruby

Question

How do I make this multidimensional? Each search result entry has multiple attributes :attributes => ['sAMAccountName','givenName','SN','mail']. and there can be many entries in the result. This code is good for creating only one entry with multiple attributes.
def self.Find(attribute, loginID)
conn = Net::LDAP.new :host => SERVER,
:port => PORT,
:base => BASE,
:auth => {
:username => 'admin',
:password => 'admin',
:method => :simple
}
if conn.bind
result = HashWithIndifferentAccess.new
conn.search( :base => LDAPBASE,
:filter => Net::LDAP::Filter.eq( attribute, loginID+"*" ),
:attributes => ['sAMAccountName','givenName','SN','mail'],
:return_result => true
).each do |entries|
entries.each do |attribute, values|
values.each do |value|
result[attribute] = value
end
end
end
result
end
end
The actual response I get from ldap is like this -
puts result.to_s
{
"dn"=>"CN=somename\\, somefirstname,OU=Users,DC=site,DC=com",
"sn"=>"somename",
"givenname"=>"somefirstname",
"samaccountname"=>"someuserid",
"mail"=>"someone#somthing.com"
}
Since the search is has * wildcard to find all matching entries. Ldap will return multiple entries in the format above. similar to this -
{
"dn"=>"CN=somename\\, somefirstname1,OU=Users,DC=site,DC=com",
"sn"=>"somename1",
"givenname"=>"somefirstname1",
"samaccountname"=>"someuserid1",
"mail"=>"someone1#somthing.com"
},
{
"dn"=>"CN=somename\\, somefirstname2,OU=Users,DC=site,DC=com",
"sn"=>"somename2",
"givenname"=>"somefirstname2",
"samaccountname"=>"someuserid2",
"mail"=>"someone2#somthing.com"
},
{
"dn"=>"CN=somename\\, somefirstname3,OU=Users,DC=site,DC=com",
"sn"=>"somename3",
"givenname"=>"somefirstname3",
"samaccountname"=>"someuserid3",
"mail"=>"someone3#somthing.com"
},
A[a=>1,b=>11,c=>111]
B[a=>2,b=>22,c=>222]
C[a=>3,b=>33,c=>333]
D[a=>4,b=>44,c=>444]

Answer 1

I'm not sure that I understood the question.
def self.Find(attribute, loginID)
conn = Net::LDAP.new :host => SERVER,
:port => PORT,
:base => BASE,
:auth => {
:username => 'admin',
:password => 'admin',
:method => :simple
}
if conn.bind
conn.search( :base => LDAPBASE,
:filter => Net::LDAP::Filter.eq( attribute, loginID+"*" ),
:attributes => ['sAMAccountName','givenName','SN','mail'],
:return_result => true
).reduce(Array.new) do |acc, el|
#
# Any modification of the entry must be here
#
acc + [el]
end
end
end
end
I think Array.map is good choice too
My assumption:
conn.search return Array of Hash
the form of result you want:
[
{"uid":"123","displayName":"User 123","mail":"123#example.com"},
{"uid":"456","displayName":"User 456","mail":"456#example.com"},
{"uid":"789","displayName":"User 789","mail":"789#example.com"}
]