GSSAPI::Status(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation GSSAPI::Status(3)

NAME
       GSSAPI::Status - methods for handlings GSSAPI statuses

SYNOPSIS
         use GSSAPI;

         $status = GSSAPI::Status->new(GSSSCOMPLETE, 0);

         if (GSSERROR($status->major)) {
           die "a horrible death";
         }
         if (! $status) {                      # another way of writing the above
           die "a horrible death";
         }

         $status = $someGSSAPI->someop($args1, etc);
         if ($status) {
           foreach ($status->genericmessage, $status->specificmessage) {
             print "GSSAPI error: $\n";
           }
           die "help me";
         }

DESCRIPTION
       "GSSAPI::Status" objects are returned by most other GSSAPI operations.
       Such statuses consist of a GSSAPI generic code and, for most
       operations, a mechanism specific code.  These numeric codes can be
       accessed via the methods "major" and "minor".  The standard textual
       messages that go with the current status can be obtained via the
       "genericmessage" and "specificmessage" methods.  Each of these
       returns a list of text which should presumably be displayed in order.

       The generic code part of a GSSAPI::Status is composed of three
       subfields that can be accessed with the "GSSCALLINGERROR",
       "GSSROUTINEERROR", and "GSSSUPPLEMENTARYINFO" functions.  The
       returned values can be compared against the constants whose names start
       with "GSSS" if your code wants to handle particular errors itself.
       The "GSSERROR" function returns true if and only if the given generic
       code contains neither a calling error nor a routine error.

       When evaluated in a boolean context, a "GSSAPI::Status" object will be
       true if and only if the major status code is "GSSSCOMPLETE".

       When evaluated in a string contect, a "GSSAPI::Status" object will
       return the generic and specific messages all joined together with
       newlines.  This may or may not make "die $status" work usefully.

BUGS
       The base objects are currently implmented as a blessed C structure
       containing the major and minor status codes.  It should probably be a
       blessed array or hash instead, thereby cutting down on the amount of C
       code involved and making it more flexible.

AUTHOR       Philip Guenther 

SEE ALSO
       perl(1) RFC2743



perl v5.8.8                       2006-03-07                 GSSAPI::Status(3)