[Freeipa-users] Exposing LDAP attributes with hyphens in their names?

[Martin Kosek]

On 05/06/2016 07:12 PM, Jeffery Harrell wrote:
> Hi. I’m very new to IPA; I only picked it up a couple weeks ago. So this may be 
> a remedial question.
> 
> I’d like to expose, both via the CLI and the GUI, certain LDAP attributes which 
> have hyphens in their names — e.g., "apple-user-homeurl.” The Param class 
> rejects these attributes because of the hyphens; the name of the Param doesn’t 
> conform to the regular expression so an exception gets thrown. This code does 
> not work:
> 
> |user.user.takes_params = user.user.takes_params + ( Str( 'apple-user-homeurl?', 
> cli_name='appleuserhomeurl', label=_('Apple User Home URL'), doc=_('Apple user 
> home URL.'), ), ) |
> 
> Is there a sensible way of getting around that, or will I have to subclass Param 
> and write a whole bunch of new code to get this to work?
> 
> Thanks very much.
> 
> Jeffery

Did you check the documentation we have so far?

http://www.freeipa.org/images/5/5b/FreeIPA33-extending-freeipa.pdf
http://abbra.fedorapeople.org/guide.html

CCing Jan for reference.

Martin