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Implementing cutom backends
===========================
API
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The backend modules must respect the following API:
.. autoclass:: ldapcherry.backend.Backend
:members: __init__, auth, add_user, del_user, set_attrs, add_to_groups, del_from_groups, search, get_user, get_groups
:undoc-members:
:show-inheritance:
Configuration
-------------
Configuration for your backend is declared in the main ini file, inside [backends] section:
For example with the configuration:
.. sourcecode:: ini
[backends]
# class path to module
b_id.module = "my.backend.module"
b_id.param1 = "my value 1"
b_id.param2 = "my value 2"
.. note::
One module can be instanciated several times, the prefix b_id permits
to differenciate instances and their specific configuration.
The following hash will be passed as configuration to the module constructor as parameter config:
.. sourcecode:: python
{
'param1': "my value 1",
'param2': "my value 2",
}
After having set **self.config** to **config** in the constructor, parameters can be recovered
by **self.get_param**:
.. autoclass:: ldapcherry.backend.Backend
:members: get_param
:undoc-members:
:show-inheritance:
Exceptions
----------
The following exception can be used in your module
.. automodule:: ldapcherry.exceptions
:members: UserDoesntExist, UserAlreadyExists, GroupDoesntExist
:undoc-members:
:show-inheritance:
These exceptions permit a nicer error handling and avoid a generic message to be thrown at the user.
Example
-------
Here is the ldap backend module that comes with LdapCherry:
.. literalinclude:: ../ldapcherry/backend/backendLdap.py
:language: python