[python3-ldap] python3-ldap and Django

[python3ldap]

Hello Richard, thanks for your message. Regarding your question on
python-ldap compatability I'm starting to write some test code for the
"drop in" but I can't assure I will get something suitable for a
production environment. The main issue is that python-ldap is a
wrapper to the openldap C client library, so I can't check thoroughly
how the C code manages the sending and receiving of data. I think that
I should be able to wirte a "compat" package that translates the
python-ldap signature to python3-ldap, but I think that the result
depends on how the python-ldap code is used in the application. So in
your case I prefer the first option (rewrite django-auth-ldap and
django-ldapdb) for python3-ldap because you can reuse it in any other
django based application.

Anyway I hope to have something working in a month or two.

Bye,
Giovanni

Have fun,
gc


2014-05-20 20:22 GMT+02:00 Richard Esplin <richard-lists at esplins.org>:
> I am very impressed with python3-ldap. It is much more pythonic than the old
> python-ldap, which makes it easier to use.
>
> I am building an LDAP backed web site in Django. There are two modules I will
> need:
>
> * django-auth-ldap for authenticating a user against an LDAP back-end,
> * django-ldapdb for writing user changes back to LDAP.
>
> Both of these modules expect python-ldap. I am trying to decide the best way
> to get them to use python3-ldap:
>
> 1) Rewrite them to call python3-ldap
> 2) Work on the python3-ldap compat module so that it can drop in for python-
> ldap
>
> Option 1 seems like it will produce the cleanest code. Option 2 seems like it
> will be the most useful for other applications that expect python-ldap, and
> on-going maintenance of the modules that call them. I'm not sure which
> approach will be easiest.
>
> Is anyone else working on this?
>
> Does anyone have any wisdom, suggestions, opinions to share?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard
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