LDAP/LDIF Parsing

[Hallvard B Furuseth]

Bruno Desthuilliers writes:
> class LdapObject(object):
>    (...)
>    def __getattr__(self, name):
>      try:
>        data = self._record[name]
>      except KeyError:
>        raise AttributeError(
>          "object %s has no attribute %s" % (self, name)
>         )

Note that LDAP attribute descriptions may be invalid Python
attribute names.  E.g.
    {...
     'title;lang-en': ['The Boss']
     'title;lang-no': ['Sjefen']}
So you'd have to call getattr() explicitly to get at all the attributes
this way.

>      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.

-- 
Regards,
Hallvard