laurelin-ldap 1.0.0b1

A pure-Python ORM-esque LDAP client.

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Named for one of the Two Trees of Valinor in Tolkien lore.

Laurelin, which means ‘Golden-song’ in the Quenya tongue, bore shining golden leaves, the Light from which mingled with the Silver Flowers of the Elder Tree to illuminate the land of the Valar.

Goals

• Personally, learn more about LDAP, and make an LDAP library that I’d like to use

• Make LDAP easier to work with in Python

  • Easy to use object-oriented API

  • Abstractions for common patterns

  • Tools for extensions to provide further abstraction wherever possible

    • Object tagging to allow for automated absolute DN construction

    • Storage of RDN attributes for a subtree, allowing users to supply only a single string used as the RDN attribute value to fully generate an absolute DN

      • (The above two not only allow for significant abstraction, but can even improve performance by minimzing the need for subtree searches)

    • Easily bind additional methods to base classes

    • Attribute level validation and object level validation that will be applied to all write operations, and can also be performed on objects read from the server for auditing purposes

• Pure-Python implementation

• Stretch

  • OpenLDAP CLI implementation which could take advantage of validation extensions

  • OpenLDAP config parser and full compatability