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

[Jeffery Harrell]

I’ve read Extending FreeIPA back to front (several times!) but I could spend more time alone with an iPad and a copy of the Guide. Thanks for the link.


On May 11, 2016 at 3:28:55 AM, Martin Kosek (mkosek at redhat.com) wrote:

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  
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