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

[Jan Cholasta]

Hi,

see also this recent commit to get an idea how to deal with attributes 
with "weird" names: 
<https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/commit/?id=6adf86378108cdf8b0825277431419a5e803aeb5>.

On 11.5.2016 17:19, Jeffery Harrell wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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Jan Cholasta