ANN: ldiftemplate 0.1.0 released

[Tjabo Kloppenburg]

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NAME:
  ldiftemplate - a small module for quick "boss can add ldap objects" scripts.

DESCRIPTION:
  When you're really happy with your ldap tree the moment comes where a dumb
  person (boss) asks you how he can hang new objects into this fancy tree
  by himself... Ugly... :-)

  This class gives me the ability to code simple scripts my boss can use to
  add some objects. It uses LDIF templates derived from real objects -- with
  simple placeholders in it.

  The class gives you a list of placeholders and descriptions so it is easy
  to print them before requesting the values (boss can see what he needs).
  After doing setPlaceholder( key, val ) for every placeholder you simply call
  getTupleList() to get a list with the two args you need for ldap.add_s().
  It is fairly simple.

MISSING FEATURES:
  - no support for base64 data ("name:: VALUE" in LDIF)
  - no detection for cross placeholder replacing
    [2 placeholders TTT and BUG: call setPlaceholder( 'TTT', 'HUMBUG') +
     setPlaceholder('BUG','something'): --> 'TTT: HUMsomething']

HOMEPAGE:
  http://www.home.unix-ag-org/tjabo/ldap/   (german)
  The in-source docs are english. And there's a method ".sample()", printing
  a sample LDIF template.
  Yes, the class's name is "new". I did not want to type "ldiftemplate"
  over and over again...

HINT:
  Use placeholders with three or more BIG LETTERS!

EXAMPLES/DEMO:
  I'll show how to add simple "customer" objects. They need cn and custID:

  TEMPLATE (newCustomer.template):
    #TITLE Quick new customer.
    #DEF XXX Name of customer
    #DEF YYY Customer id
    dn: cn=XXX,ou=customers,o=company
    objectClass: customer
    objectClass: top
    cn: XXX
    custID: YYY

  SCRIPT:
    #!/usr/bin/env python2.2
    import ldiftemplate

    t = ldiftemplate.new( 'newCustomer.template' )
    ph = t.getPlaceholders() # [ ('XXX', 'Name of customer'), ... ]
    print t.title
    print " I need: \n - " + "\n - ".join( map( lambda x: x[1], ph ) )
    for p in ph:
      e = raw_input( "%s> " % ( p[1] ) )
      t.setPlaceholder( p[0], e )
    print t.getTupleList()

  OUTPUT:
    Quick new customer.
     I need:
     - Name of customer
     - Customer id
    Name of customer> FlyLime Ltd
    Customer id> 1034
    ('cn=FlyLime Ltd,ou=customers,o=company', [('objectClass', ['customer',
    'top']), ('custID', ['1034']), ('cn', ['FlyLime Ltd'])])

  The next step would be to do ldap.initialize(...), bind(...), and
  l.add_s( L[0], L[1] ).

INSTALLATION:
  Copy ldiftemplate.py to a good place. :-)
  "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/"
  or
  "<the directory where your program is>"

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