The ldap library at http://python-ldap.sourceforge.net wraps the Openldap C api. It can talk to various versions of ldap servers not just the Openldap servers. Note the use of the '_s' methods like search_s which all are synchronous. Here are some simple examples showing one how to use the library.
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path='cn=people,ou=office,o=company'
l=ldap.open('hostname')
#set which protocol if you do not like the default
l.protocol_version = ldap.VERSION2
l.simple_bind('cn=root,ou=office,o=company','password')
#search for surnames beginning with a
#available options for how deep a search you want.
#LDAP_SCOPE_BASE, LDAP_SCOPE_ONELEVEL,LDAP_SCOPE_SUBTREE,
a=l.search_s(path,ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE,'sn='+'a*')
#delete fred
l.delete_s('cn=fred,'+path)
#add barney
#note: objectclass is dependant on the ldap server
user_info = {'uid':'barney123',
'givenname':'Barney',
'cn':'barney123',
'sn':'Smith',
'telephonenumber':'123-4567',
'facsimiletelephonenumber':'987-6543',
'objectclass':('Remote-Address','person', 'Top'),
'physicaldeliveryofficename':'Services',
'mail':'fred123@company.com',
'title':'programmer',
}
id='cn=barney,'+path
attributes=[ (k,v) for k,v in user_info.items() ]
l.add_s(id,attributes)
except ldap.LDAPError, error:
print 'problem with ldap',error
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Fundamentally with ldap (as with many other things), you can search,create, and delete. The examples show just that, for more extensive documentation consult http://python-ldap.sourceforge.net/docs.shtml.
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Great example, but are there any good async examples? I have used this lib a bit and it is pretty easy, but I haven't tried to use it asyncronously. I looked through the samples that came with the code, but didn't find a good complete example of using the async methods.
Maybe you can post a quick one?
ldap.async. Watch out the python-ldap docs for the sub-module ldap.async which is meant for stream processing of large result sets. The docs solely contain a single example. But that should be sufficient to get the idea.
Do not use LDAPv2. You should not mess with l.protocol_version unless you really know what you're doing!!!
LDAPv2 is a deprecated protocol version (RFCs marked as historic). LDAPv3 is what most LDAP servers implement today.
Therefore python-ldap's default for l.protocol_version is ldap.VERSION3 which sets LDAPv3 for binds.