LDAP/LDIF Parsing

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Hallvard B Furuseth a écrit :
> Bruno Desthuilliers writes:
> 
>>Hallvard B Furuseth a écrit :
>>
>>>>     else:
>>>>       # all LDAP attribs are multivalued by default,
>>>>       # even when the schema says they are monovalued
>>>>       if len(data) == 1:
>>>>          return data[0]
>>>>       else:
>>>>          return data[:]
>>>
>>>IMHO, this just complicates the client code since the client needs to
>>>inserts checks of isinstance(return value, list) all over the place.
>>>Better to have a separate method which extracts just the first value of
>>>an attribute, if you want that.
>>
>>Most of the times, in a situation such as the one described by the OP,
>>one knows by advance if a given LDAP attribute will be used as
>>monovalued or multivalued. Well, this is at least my own experience...
>  
> But if the attribute is multivalued, you don't know if it will contain
> just one value or not.

If you know which attributes are supposed to be multivalued in your 
specific application, then it's time to write a more serious, 
application-specific wrapper.