[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 93 Add custom mapping object for LDAP entry data

[John Dennis]

On 01/16/2013 10:45 AM, Jan Cholasta wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this patch adds initial support for custom LDAP entry objects, as
> described in <http://freeipa.org/page/V3/LDAP_code>.
>

Just in case you missed it, I added some requirements to the above 
design page about making LDAP attributes and their values be "smarter".

An LDAP attribute has a syntax defining how comparisons are to be 
performed. Python code using standard Python operators, sorting 
functions, etc. should "just work" because underneath the object is 
aware of it's LDAP syntax.

The same holds true for attribute names, it should "just work" correctly 
any place we touch an attribute name because it's an object implementing 
the desired comparison and hashing behavior.

Thus the keys in an Entry dict would need to be a new class and the 
values would need to be a new class as well. Simple strings do not give 
rich enough semantic behavior (we shouldn't be providing this semantic 
behavior every place in the code where we touch an attribute name or 
value, rather it should just automatically work using standard Python 
operators.

-- 
John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>

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