Upgrading to Version 2

Models

Exception Handling

Models will now always throw the following exception after failure of creation/modification:

LdapRecord\LdapRecordException

This is instead of potentially failing silently and returning false, as previously implemented.

Due to the above change, the following methods will throw an exception upon failure:

Important: These methods now return no value (void).

• $model->save()
• $model->update()
• $model->delete()
• $model->createAttribute()
• $model->updateAttribute()
• $model->deleteAttribute()
• $model->rename()
• $model->move()

// Before...
try {
  if ($model->save()) {
    //
  }
} catch (\LdapRecord\LdapRecordException $ex) {
  //
}

// After...
try {
  $model->save();
} catch (\LdapRecord\LdapRecordException $ex) {
  //
}

The follwowing static methods will also throw an exception upon failure:

Important: These methods maintain their return value from v1.

• Model::create()
• Model::destroy()

Synchronize renamed to Refresh

The $model->synchronize() method has been renamed to follow Laravel's Eloquent method name for the same purpose: $model->refresh().

This will allow developers to utilize the same syntax across both Eloquent and LdapRecord:

$user = User::find('cn=John Doe,dc=local,dc=com');

// Before...
$user->synchronize();

// After...
$user->refresh();

Automated Synchronization Removed

In v1 of LdapRecord, attributes on models would be automatically re-synchronized when any modification was performed on a model.

This ended up being very resource intensive when peforming bulk creations or updates on models.

If you require refreshing a models attribute's after creation or modification, use the refresh() method:

Important: This means that Object GUID's are no longer available immediately after creation.

use LdapRecord\Models\ActiveDirectory\User;

// Object GUID will not be available.
$user = User::create(['...']);

// Returns `null`:
$user->getConvertedGuid();

// Re-pulling attributes:
$user->refresh();

// Returns the newly assigned Object GUID:
$user->getConvertedGuid();

asDateTime Parameter Order

If you were casting an LDAP timestamp manually using the $model->asDateTime() method, the parameter order has been swapped:

$type = 'windows-int';
$timestamp = '132460789290000000';

// Before...
$carbon = $model->asDateTime($type, $timestamp);

// After...
$carbon = $model->asDateTime($timestamp, $type);

Query Builder

Not Found Exceptions

Previously in v1 of LdapRecord, when using orFail() methods directly on raw Connection queries, a ModelNotFoundException would be thrown.

This didn't make much sense, since models are not returned from raw queries.

A new exception has been introduced to alleviate any confusion:

LdapRecord\Query\ObjectNotFoundException

The ModelNotFoundException also now extends ObjectNotFoundException.

$connection = new Connection(['...']);

// Before...
try {
    $connection->query()->firstOrFail();
} catch (\LdapRecord\Models\ModelNotFoundException $ex) {
    //
}

// After...
try {
    $connection->query()->firstOrFail();
} catch (\LdapRecord\Query\ObjectNotFoundException $ex) {
    //
}