OID post_add Plugin Directory Search

Hello

I am writing a post_add plugin in OID to push some data to some downstream systems and have it properly registered, but when trying to get attributes from the LdapBaseEntry the only attributes accessible / being returned is the DN of the object. It looks like in the documentation, post_add does not support much in terms of return attributes so want to use the DN returned from the object and just run a direct search. But, my question is, from within the context of the plugin, how can I do a platform connection / direct search without having