Re: [Freeipa-users] Exposing LDAP attributes with hyphens in their names?

[Jan Cholasta]

Hi,

see also this recent commit to get an idea how to deal with attributes 
with "weird" names: 
.


On 11.5.2016 17:19, Jeffery Harrell wrote:

I’ve read Extending FreeIPA back to front (several times!) but I could
spend more time alone with an iPad and a copy of the Guide. Thanks for
the link.


On May 11, 2016 at 3:28:55 AM, Martin Kosek (mko...@redhat.com
) wrote:


On 05/06/2016 07:12 PM, Jeffery Harrell wrote:
> Hi. I’m very new to IPA; I only picked it up a couple weeks ago. So this may 
be
> a remedial question.
>
> I’d like to expose, both via the CLI and the GUI, certain LDAP attributes 
which
> have hyphens in their names — e.g., "apple-user-homeurl.” The Param class
> rejects these attributes because of the hyphens; the name of the Param doesn’t
> conform to the regular expression so an exception gets thrown. This code does
> not work:
>
> |user.user.takes_params = user.user.takes_params + ( Str( 
'apple-user-homeurl?',
> cli_name='appleuserhomeurl', label=_('Apple User Home URL'), doc=_('Apple user
> home URL.'), ), ) |
>
> Is there a sensible way of getting around that, or will I have to subclass 
Param
> and write a whole bunch of new code to get this to work?
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> Jeffery

Did you check the documentation we have so far?

http://www.freeipa.org/images/5/5b/FreeIPA33-extending-freeipa.pdf
http://abbra.fedorapeople.org/guide.html

CCing Jan for reference.

Martin



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Re: [Freeipa-users] Exposing LDAP attributes with hyphens in their names?

[Jeffery Harrell]

I’ve read Extending FreeIPA back to front (several times!) but I could spend 
more time alone with an iPad and a copy of the Guide. Thanks for the link.


On May 11, 2016 at 3:28:55 AM, Martin Kosek (mko...@redhat.com) wrote:

On 05/06/2016 07:12 PM, Jeffery Harrell wrote:  
> Hi. I’m very new to IPA; I only picked it up a couple weeks ago. So this may 
> be  
> a remedial question.  
>  
> I’d like to expose, both via the CLI and the GUI, certain LDAP attributes 
> which  
> have hyphens in their names — e.g., "apple-user-homeurl.” The Param class  
> rejects these attributes because of the hyphens; the name of the Param 
> doesn’t  
> conform to the regular expression so an exception gets thrown. This code does 
>  
> not work:  
>  
> |user.user.takes_params = user.user.takes_params + ( Str( 
> 'apple-user-homeurl?',  
> cli_name='appleuserhomeurl', label=_('Apple User Home URL'), doc=_('Apple 
> user  
> home URL.'), ), ) |  
>  
> Is there a sensible way of getting around that, or will I have to subclass 
> Param  
> and write a whole bunch of new code to get this to work?  
>  
> Thanks very much.  
>  
> Jeffery  

Did you check the documentation we have so far?  

http://www.freeipa.org/images/5/5b/FreeIPA33-extending-freeipa.pdf  
http://abbra.fedorapeople.org/guide.html  

CCing Jan for reference.  

Martin  
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Re: [Freeipa-users] Exposing LDAP attributes with hyphens in their names?

[Martin Kosek]

On 05/06/2016 07:12 PM, Jeffery Harrell wrote:
> Hi. I’m very new to IPA; I only picked it up a couple weeks ago. So this may 
> be 
> a remedial question.
> 
> I’d like to expose, both via the CLI and the GUI, certain LDAP attributes 
> which 
> have hyphens in their names — e.g., "apple-user-homeurl.” The Param class 
> rejects these attributes because of the hyphens; the name of the Param 
> doesn’t 
> conform to the regular expression so an exception gets thrown. This code does 
> not work:
> 
> |user.user.takes_params = user.user.takes_params + ( Str( 
> 'apple-user-homeurl?', 
> cli_name='appleuserhomeurl', label=_('Apple User Home URL'), doc=_('Apple 
> user 
> home URL.'), ), ) |
> 
> Is there a sensible way of getting around that, or will I have to subclass 
> Param 
> and write a whole bunch of new code to get this to work?
> 
> Thanks very much.
> 
> Jeffery

Did you check the documentation we have so far?

http://www.freeipa.org/images/5/5b/FreeIPA33-extending-freeipa.pdf
http://abbra.fedorapeople.org/guide.html

CCing Jan for reference.

Martin

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