I want to do (what I thought) would be quite a simple thing. I have an LDAP
entry that looks like this(in LDIF format):
dn: cn=myorg,ou=teams,ou=groups,o=company,c=us
cn: myorg
objectClass: top
objectClass: CompanyTeams
objectClass: groupOfUniqueNames
owner: cn=john,ou=people,o=company,c=us
uniqueMember: cn=bob,ou=people,o=company,c=us
uniqueMember: cn=bill,ou=people,o=company,c=us
uniqueMember: cn=carol,ou=people,o=company,c=us
uniqueMember: cn=frank,ou=people,o=company,c=us
uniqueMember: cn=alice,ou=people,o=company,c=us
In my code, I have all these entries represented as dicts. I'm using Python's
LDIF writer to write these entries out to proper LDIF. Exporting the whole
thing is easy:
def dump_ldif(self):
writer = LDIFWriter(open('entrybackup.ldif', 'wb'))
writer.unparse(cn=myorg,
self.all_the_teams.get_teamstr_by_name('{'objectClass': ['top', 'CompanyTeams',
'groupOfUniqueNames']'owner': ['cn=john,ou=people,o=company,c=us'],
'uniqueMember': ['uniqueMember: cn=bob,ou=people,o=company,c=us','uniqueMember:
cn=bill,ou=people,o=company,c=us','uniqueMember:
cn=carol,ou=people,o=company,c=us','uniqueMember:
cn=frank,ou=people,o=company,c=us','uniqueMember:
cn=alice,ou=people,o=company,c=us'], 'cn': ['myorg']}')
But how do you have LDIF output that uses delete/modify operators? I have a
list of uniqueMember that I want to go away:
['cn=bob,ou=people,o=company,c=us', 'cn=bill,ou=people,o=company,c=us']
And (I believe) this is the end goal in LDIF format, pulling from my list:
dn: cn=myorg,ou=teams,ou=groups,o=company,c=us
changetype: modify
delete: uniqueMember
uniqueMember: cn=bob,ou=people,o=company,c=us
uniqueMember: cn=bill,ou=people,o=company,c=us
Is there not some simple way to do this with Python(2.7)? Starting to feel
crazy. Note: I could just do the text output/manipulation, but I want to stick
with LDIFWriter to write this output. I just want find the syntax to output
'delete' LDIF directives.
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