[Freeipa-devel] updates and deletes

[Rob Crittenden]

We need to come to some decision on how we're going to handle updates 
and deletes (or really inactivations).

The LDAP API for updates is a list of tuples in the form 
(mod_op,mod_type,mod_vals), where mod_op is the operation (one of 
MOD_ADD, MOD_DELETE, or MOD_REPLACE), mod_type is a string indicating 
the attribute type name, and mod_vals is either a string value or a list 
of string values to add, delete or replace respectively. With deletes id 
mod_vals is None then all attributes are deleted (probably something to 
test for and reject, I doubt we'd ever want this).

We don't have to strictly follow this model, just laying out one 
possibility. We can also have 3 functions: add_attr, update_attr and 
del_attr. That might be simpler at the expense of verbosity 
(particularly over XML-RPC).

For deletes/inactivations I need to know what attribute(s) to set/unset.

rob
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