LDAP functions in 4.0

[Szombathelyi György]

Tobias Koenig írta:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 11:35:04PM +0200, Szombathelyi György wrote:
>> Hello!
> Hi György,
> 
>> Also my plan is to take 
>> some classes from KAddressBook which are LDAP related (LdapServer and some 
>> others), clean up for generic use and also put it in this lib. My final goal 
>> is to make a lib which can be used for basic LDAP manipulation, and querying 
>> directory servers will not require kio_ldap (as KUser, KAddressbook and the 
>> LDAP resource does it now), actually kio_ldap will be a wrapper for this lib. 
>> Opinions?
> Great, I'm all for it!
> 
> We just have to think about where to locate this lib in SVN, if it's a
> generic lib, most applications should be able to make use of it.
> 
Put it to a seperate module in kdesupport? That has the drawback that 
another module needed to compile in some KDE functions.

> BTW, would it be possible to make the openldap wrapper Qt only? Then Qt
> only application could use this code as well. Atm every application has
> to deal with the undocumented, procedure based C API directly, it's
> really time for a nice C++ wrapper.
> 
Hmmm, I'll investigate this. Now LDAPUrl inherited from KURL, 
LdapConfigWidget uses KDE widgets...Wrapper lib doesn't exist yet, I 
think I'll start with the current LdapSearch class in kdepim, which can 
be Qt only.

> Ciao,
> Tobias