[python-ldap] O/R mapper

[Florian Friesdorf]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:15:25 +0200, Michael Ströder <michael at stroeder.com> wrote:
> Florian Friesdorf wrote:
> > For me it looks like the attribute conversions could be handled by
> > subclassing and overwriting _ldap_call [3], in pseudo-code:
> > 
> > def _ldap_call(self, func, *args, **kwargs):
> >     args = deep_utf8_copy(args)
> >     kwargs = deep_utf8_copy(kwargs)
> >     res = super(...)...
> >     if not self.convmap:
> >        return res
> >     return check_for_things_to_convert(res, self.convmap)
> 
> http://www.freeipa.org is doing something like this AFAICT with decorators.
> Check their code.
>
> But as repeated on this mailing list several times: In general this won't work
> without having knowledge of the subschema. E.g. your automatic conversion
> won't work for attributes like jpegPhoto, userCertificate, userPKCS12 etc.

> > Attribute conversion maps could be generated from automatically parsing
> > an ldap's schemas (if supported) or be provided by the user.

For fields were automatic conversion does not work, a conversion needs
to be specified by the user of the library. Nevertheless, I think the
place were the conversion is supposed to happen, is inside of
python-ldap, because otherwise people will keep reinventing that
functionality.

> So you could have a look how web2ldap deals with all that based on
> schema-aware classes. Basically there are classes for each LDAP syntax
> registered by syntax OID with several possibilities to override that for
> certain attribute types. web2ldap itself is only interested in (Unicode)
> strings. One could extend the concept to convert to native Python data types.

Thank you for the pointer, will definitely have a look at it.

Why do you keep this functionality in web2ldap and not in python-ldap?

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