Following this post (I was looking for a library allowing me to declare Django models on a ldap backend), I have decided to use ldapdb. After having played a while with this library, I figured out that it doesn’t reach the level of control I need, and I am therefore looking for other solutions. What I am thinking of now is implementing a Django db backend based on python-ldap.
EDIT
I need this because I am currently implementing a user/group management system on a ldap directory (it requires to be able to manipulate not only users, but different classes of ldap objects as well). So basically, I would like to be able to use (nearly) full Django orm, but with a ldap backend.
Because I love Django (and would be rather motivated in learning the dirty low-level details of db.backends), and because there’s already a lot of things implemented in this project, I would like to stick to Django (unless somebody has a very good reason why I shouldn’t, and a very good alternative !).
- Do some of you have a simpler solution to this problem ?
- Do some of you know about an implementation of such a thing (ldap db backend) ?
- Do some of you know some good reads to get started on “implementing a Django db backend”?
- Are some of you interested in helping with this project ?
Seems like there’s no really good solution. And doing everything without Django’s ORM is no good solution either.
I’ll make new attempt at solving that problem soon, with a django-orm-based solution.