rmeggins@redhat.com wrote:

One thing that a general purpose LDIF parser needs is support for change records - for example, the ability to read in a changetype: modify and parse the changes into an LDAPMod ** or something like that. There's already code in ldapmodify to do this, it would need to be refactored into libldif.

There are not only add/modify operations possible in a LDIF file.

Personally I'm banging my head about adding full support for change records in python-ldap's LDIF parser. At the end one would have to trigger all LDAP operations including processing of LDAPv3 extended controls. So I guess for a C API this would mean a call-back interface full-featured like libldap itself. (So the next question would be whether to stick with this LDAP C API...)

Ciao, Michael.