[Freeipa-devel] Using the new LDAP code

[Jan Cholasta]

On 27.2.2013 18:14, John Dennis wrote:
> On 02/27/2013 11:23 AM, Jan Cholasta wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 27.2.2013 17:09, John Dennis wrote:
>>>> IPA plugins traditionally use (dn, entry_attrs) pairs to represent
>>>> entries. To make that work, iterating over an LDAPEntry will, for now,
>>>> yield the DN and the entry itself. Always use keys() or values() when
>>>> iterating over an entry.
>>>
>>> I'm trying parse what the above means, it seems to be one of the two:
>>>
>>> 1) There is still a bunch of code that continues to use 2-tuples in the
>>> plugins and additional work remains to converge on a single API.
>>>
>>> 2) All the code that used 2-tuples has been cleaned up and expunged,
>>> however if the old 2-tuple methodology was used it would still work.
>>>
>>
>> it's the former, there is still code that uses 2-tuples.
>
> O.K. so we're still a ways away from completing the task. Would this be
> a correct summary?
>
> Phase 1 is completed, a consistent API has been defined and implemented.
> Phase 2 is converting all the code to use the API defined in Phase 1, a
> task yet to be done.
>

Correct. But I don't think converting 2-tuples to the new API will be a 
huge task.

Honza

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Jan Cholasta