[Freeipa-devel] [PATCHES] Bring back old outputting functionality

[Pavel Zůna]

Jason Gerard DeRose wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 10:30 -0500, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> Pavel Zuna wrote:
>>> What I'm saying is that the Env object stores all strings as str and the 
>>> env command uses the same output_for_cli as LDAP commands, that only use 
>>> str for binary. So, we either need to override output_for_cli or switch 
>>> to unicode in Env.
>> Not exactly sure what to do here though using unicode seems like the 
>> best route.
>>
> 
> Yes, we should store the env as `unicode`... this is something I've been
> meaning to do.  I originally left them as `str` because I was having
> problems using `unicode` somewhere (maybe it was python-ldap), but we
> should just fix this special case in the appropriate place.
That's possible, python-ldap seems to hate everything except str and list.

> As I wrote the latest Env version (using Martins work as a starting
> point), I can make this change.
Actually, if you didn't start on it yet. I would take this task onto 
myself as I already did some experiments to see if it would work and I 
should be able to have a patch by tomorrow.

> Should this be post-alpha?
> 

Pavel