Schema-API

[Michael Ströder]

Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
> i'm trying to run the Demo/schema.py script and steppping through it 
> with pdb there's an oddity i see, which prevents the script from running 
> successfully:
> 
> - ldapobject.py line 548 (in method search_subschemasubentry) a search 
> is done on the passed-in DN to retrieve the value for the attribute 
> "subschemaSubentry". the search is successful and returns...
> 
> [('dc=vts,dc=zope,dc=com', {'subschemaSubentry': ['cn=Subschema']})]
> 
> - in line 555 there is the following call:
> 
> e = ldap.cidict.cidict(r[0][1])  (r is the result shown above)
> 
> - at this point "e" has the following value:
> 
> {'subschemasubentry': ['cn=Subschema']}  (notice: "subschemasubentry" is 
> all lowercase now)
> 
> - now the problem is in line 556 in the call...
> 
> search_subschemasubentry_dn = e.get('subschemaSubentry', [None])[]  

Yes, no problem since ldap.cidict.cidict is used. I wouldn't claim 
that there is no bug. But I can't see a problem.

> ... at this point the result is None and the script dies a little later.

"Dies a little later" is a little bit unspecific. Can you please 
provide the traceback and mention which LDAP server you're using 
for testing?

Ciao, Michael.