[Twisted-Python] Ldaptor attributes in Python 3
I'm using Ldaptor for LDAP access because it fits in with Twisted, and the results are a bit mystifying. The results that come back from a search are a list of LDAPEntryWithClient. Indexing this, e.g. entry['cn'], gives an object of type JournaledLDAPAttributeSet, which is a subclass of set. It contains the name of the attribute and a list containing the value: JournaledLDAPAttributeSet(b'cn', [b'Peter Westlake']) Getting the value out of that isn't straightforward: I'd have to check the elements of the set for a list. Is there a better way? I've also found that the items() method gives something more tractable:
so I can turn that into a dict and index that. But again, this seems like an odd design for an API. Is there a better way to extract the value of an attribute from an entry? Peter.
Hi, On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 at 11:15, Peter Westlake <peter.westlake@pobox.com> wrote:
Can you send a full example of how you would like the API to behave ? Or send a PR ? :) I am doing a client-side search like this and I was happy with API o = LDAPEntry(client, base_dn) results = yield o.search( attributes=[b'objectclass'], scope=LDAP_SCOPE_wholeSubtree, filterText='(cn=test)', ) for result in results: print (result['objectclass']) -- Adi Roiban
On Sat, 23 Jan 2021, at 22:09, Adi Roiban wrote:
Thanks, Adi! My code looks like this:
I would like this to print: Peter Westlake or b'Peter Westlake' What it actually prints is: JournaledLDAPAttributeSet(b'cn', [b'Peter Westlake]) Having searched the WWW for examples, it looks as though other people have seen it behaving in exactly the way I want, but it's not doing that for me, with Python 3.6.8 on CentOS 7. Peter.
Hi, On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 at 11:15, Peter Westlake <peter.westlake@pobox.com> wrote:
Can you send a full example of how you would like the API to behave ? Or send a PR ? :) I am doing a client-side search like this and I was happy with API o = LDAPEntry(client, base_dn) results = yield o.search( attributes=[b'objectclass'], scope=LDAP_SCOPE_wholeSubtree, filterText='(cn=test)', ) for result in results: print (result['objectclass']) -- Adi Roiban
On Sat, 23 Jan 2021, at 22:09, Adi Roiban wrote:
Thanks, Adi! My code looks like this:
I would like this to print: Peter Westlake or b'Peter Westlake' What it actually prints is: JournaledLDAPAttributeSet(b'cn', [b'Peter Westlake]) Having searched the WWW for examples, it looks as though other people have seen it behaving in exactly the way I want, but it's not doing that for me, with Python 3.6.8 on CentOS 7. Peter.
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