ldap.async (was: sample code online)

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Michael Engelhart wrote:
> 
> As for ldap.async.List are you suggesting that we'll have some more user 
> friendly wrappers for python-ldap?

Well, I developed it for web2ldap and some of my commercial projects and 
contributed it to python-ldap.

ldap.async solves some real-word problems for me:
- Stream processing of large result sets (ldap.async.AsyncSearchHandler)
- Grab partial search results (ldap.async.List)
- Write large result sets to file object (ldap.async.FileWriter), e.g. 
produce LDIF with ldap.async.LDIFWriter.

There's also some potential with deriving classes from 
ldap.ldapobject.LDAPObject (mainly SimpleLDAPObject): Automatic fail-over, 
load-balancing.
E.g. I'm using ldap.ldapobject.ReconnectLDAPObject in web2ldap to work 
around Domino/LDAP dropping LDAP connections quite frequently.

But I did not make up my mind so far about a really nice and cleanly 
designed class structure.

> Is that something that people are 
> working on?

At the moment I'm the only one...

Ciao, Michael.