Hi,
LDAP natively supports a lot of different types of syntaxes for it's attributes
in schemas, like syntaxes for strings, booleans, dates, integers, numbers,
etc... But python-ldap queries always return utf-8 encoded strings for any type
of ldap attribute syntax.
So this way in my application to properly handle, for example, boolean ldap
attribute syntax I'm usually doing:
if ldap_value == 'TRUE':
value = True
elif ldap_value == 'FALSE'
value = False
I'm pretty new to LDAP development so don't know a lot about it's history and
design decisions made during it's development. So I'm just wondering why
python-ldap doesn't benefit from those LDAP attribute syntax definitions and
performs conversion to python data types when possible but always returns
strings.
Was this discussed previously? I can't google any relevant information on this
topic. Any hints, links, suggestions, insights will be highly appreciated!
Regards,
Vitaliy Podoba
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