3.1.2.1.4. ldap.utils – Processing for LDAP-Like Person Listings

A set of shared utilities useful for dealing with LDAP or LDAP-like data sources. Contains a list of LDAP-entry defined fields and a partial processor for LDAP data.

lib.tasks.phonebook.ldap.utils.supported_fields

A set of fields supported by the process_data() function.

address (__builtin__.str)

The person’s home address (or if that’s not available, their first available physical address).

affiliation (__builtin__.str)

Described here. As of writing, possible values include “faculty”, “staff”, “student”, and “member”.

birth_date (datetime.date)

An instance of datetime.date representing the person’s date of birth.

department_number (__builtin__.str)

A code representing what department this person belongs to.

email (__builtin__.str)

The person’s email address.

employee_number (__builtin__.str)

If this person is employed by the University of Florida, this is their employee number. This is the same as one’s UFID Number.

gatorlink (__builtin__.str)

The person’s gatorlink username.

gatorlink_email (__builtin__.str)

The person’s gatorlink email address (if not explicitly provided, this is guessed to be the person’s gatorlink, with “@ufl.edu” appended onto the end).

language (__builtin__.str)

The person’s prefered language.

name (__builtin__.str)

The person’s name, typically: “Lastname, Firstname”

office_address (__builtin__.str)

The person’s office address (if available).

phone (__builtin__.str)

The preferred phone number (or at least the first one that shows up

preferred_phone (__builtin__.str)

An alias to phone.

raw_ldap (__builtin__.dict)

The raw fields pulled from the person’s LDAP entry.

title (__builtin__.str)

Usually something like “student”, or “Resident, DN-ORAL SURGERY RESIDENT”

lib.tasks.phonebook.ldap.utils.process_data(data)

Takes a dict or list of tuples with “raw” LDAP data in string format, and processes it into more pythonic objects with keys matching those listed in supported_fields. The processed dict is returned.