[Freeipa-devel] Redesigning LDAP code

[John Dennis]

On 01/11/2013 09:10 AM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Petr Viktorin wrote:
>> We had a small discussion off-list about how we want IPA's LDAP handling
>> to look in the future.
>> To continue the discussion publicly I've summarized the results and
>> added some of my own ideas to a page.
>> John gets credit for the overview (the mistakes & WTFs are mine).
>>
>> The text is on http://freeipa.org/page/V3/LDAP_code, and echoed below.
>>
>>
>
> IIRC some of the the python-ldap code is used b/c ldap2 may require a
> configuration to be set up prior to working. That is one of the nice
> things about the IPAdmin interface, it is much easier to create
> connections to other hosts.

Good point. But I don't believe that issue affects having a common API 
or a single point where LDAP data flows through. It might mean having 
more than one initialization method or subclassing.


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