python-ldap as replication client

[Eric Brunson]

On 03/11/2011 11:00 AM, Michael Ströder wrote:
> Eric Brunson wrote:
>> On 03/11/2011 05:40 AM, Michael Ströder wrote:
>>> No matter which sync protocol you implement it's very likely that you need
>>> python-LDAP from CVS HEAD (will be python 2.4) since this version contains
>>> code to extract response controls from intermediate responses.
>> I'm currently working on a project that requires me to do a syncrepl
>> from python and after much, much reading I'm afraid that the python-ldap
>> library does not implement 4533 correctly.
>>
>> Sync cookies are only retrieved by python-ldap if they are returned in a
>> server control, however this is only the case in an
>> LDAP_RES_SEARCH_RESULT or an LDAP_RES_SEARCH_ENTRY packets.  The
>> protocol passes both deletes and presence records in
>> LDAP_RES_INTERMEDIATE packets, which don't get returned to the python
>> caller as they don't have LDAP entries in them, and cookies are also
>> returned in these intermediate result packets, but not in a server
>> control, so those are missed.
> The patches in CVS HEAD were contributed by Rich exactly to make syncrepl
> possible with python-ldap. If you think the current implementation in CVS HEAD
> still has deficiencies regarding controls in intermediate responses I happily
> will review a patch. ;-)

Wow, Michael, that is super awesome news.  I'll check the CVS head, try 
it out and get back to you.

Sincerely,
e.