From 01015aafcbee89361c2ea58f5a3318725a4f5998 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sdalu <sdalu@sdalu.com>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 19:16:02 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Adding Net::LDAP::Entry#first

---
 lib/net/ldap/entry.rb | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/net/ldap/entry.rb b/lib/net/ldap/entry.rb
index 616ffe7f..9ab4bb6d 100644
--- a/lib/net/ldap/entry.rb
+++ b/lib/net/ldap/entry.rb
@@ -113,6 +113,14 @@ def [](name)
     @myhash[name] || []
   end
 
+  ##
+  # Read the first value for the provided attribute. The attribute name
+  # is canonicalized prior to reading. Returns nil if the attribute does 
+  # not exist.
+  def first(name)
+    self[name].first
+  end
+
   ##
   # Returns the first distinguished name (dn) of the Entry as a \String.
   def dn