[python3-ldap] Submit LDIF data for processing via ldap3

[Michael Ward]

Thanks Giovanni!  Yes, you're exactly right --- we already have the
standard "ldapadd" and "ldapmodify" utilities that can accomplish LDIF
processing, I was just wondering if there was some way to use ldap3
instead, that way we can keep all of our LDAP tools in one place and in
Python.

My interest in this function is that, for example, when we expire user
accounts, we keep archive their LDAP records as LDIF files.  In some cases
an expired user returns and needs their account reopened, and we need to
recreate their accounts as they existed when they were expired.  It would
be cool if I could just feed the old LDIF records into ldap3 and say
"re-create these records."  I write everything in Python, and when I write
a script like unexpire-user.py, I was just wondering if I could do these
operations in native Python with ldap3.  But for now I can just make shell
calls to /usr/bin/ldapadd and pass it the LDIF filename.

Thanks for your prompt response.

Mike

On Wed, February 18, 2015 17:22, Giovanni Cannata wrote:
> Hello Michael,
> converting an LDIF-CHANGE to an operation is a feature not provided by
> the ldap3 library, but it should be easy to develop.
>
> Can I ask why you need that? Keep in mind that LDIF-CHANGE is related
> to LDAP server operations, not client's, and usually you already have
> some server utilities to do that.
>
> Bye,
> Giovanni
>
>
> 2015-02-18 22:23 GMT+01:00 Michael Ward <mward at cims.nyu.edu>:
>> Really digging this project so far.  Just a quick question:
>>
>> I noticed that it's possible to turn an ldap3 LDAP operation into an
>> LDIF
>> format (either with response_to_ldif(results) for CONTENT or an LDIF
>> connection strategy for CHANGE), but is it possible to go the other way
>> around?  i.e. I have an LDIF change record in plain text --- can I feed
>> that into ldap3 somehow to perform the corresponding LDAP operation?  I
>> read the docs and I don't think this is possible, but I just want to
>> double check.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Mike
>>
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