Re: Remove code for set_rebind_proc() in LDAPObject.c?

[Steffen R. <ste...@sy...>]

Michael Str=F6der <mi...@st...> writes:

> HI!
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> Anyone in favour of re-enabling method set_rebind_proc()?

Well, I am.

To be exact. I am interested in the functionality provided by
set_rebind_proc, not necessarily in its implementation.

> It has been disabled quite a while ago and I would like to remove
> the code from LDAPObject.c. Callbacks are pretty un-pythonic and the
> functionality can be better achieved in a Python wrapper class.

The last time I looked into this issue, I did not see an easy way how
to build a wrapper class which encapsulates the rebinding. Do you
have more ideas in this direction? I'm not sure when I'll find the
time to work on this, but I may be able to contribute an
implementation.

> If someone really needs it he/she should volunteer maintaining it
> according to changes which might have been made in recent versions of
> OpenLDAP 2.x.

I currently use an implementation that is backward compatible with
OpenLDAP 1.x. The main reason is my application works both on Unix and
WinNT. Since I don't actively support WinNT (esp. I don't have the
infrastructure to build C-Code on NT), I depend on pre-built
packages. The last time I checked, I didn't find any python-ldap-2.x
package for windows.

/steffen
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