[Freeipa-devel] Using the new LDAP code

[John Dennis]

On 02/27/2013 12:22 PM, Jan Cholasta wrote:
> 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.

Cool!


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