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ldappool
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A simple connector pool for python-ldap.
The pool keeps LDAP connectors alive and let you reuse them,
drastically reducing the time spent to initiate a ldap connection.
The pool has useful features like:
- transparent reconnection on failures or server restarts
- configurable pool size and connectors timeouts
- configurable max lifetime for connectors
- a context manager to simplify acquiring and releasing a connector
**You need python-ldap in order to use this library**
Quickstart
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To work with the pool, you just need to create it, then use it as a
context manager with the *connection* method::
from ldappool import ConnectionManager
cm = ConnectionManager('ldap://localhost')
with cm.connection('uid=adminuser,ou=logins,dc=mozilla', 'password') as conn:
.. do something with conn ..
The connector returned by *connection* is a LDAPObject, that's binded to the
server. See https://pypi.org/project/python-ldap/ for details on how to use a connector.
It is possible to check the state of the pool by representing the pool as a string::
from ldappool import ConnectionManager
cm = ConnectionManager('ldap://localhost', size=2)
.. do something with cm ..
print(cm)
This will result in output similar to this table::
+--------------+-----------+----------+------------------+--------------------+------------------------------+
| Slot (2 max) | Connected | Active | URI | Lifetime (600 max) | Bind DN |
+--------------+-----------+----------+------------------+--------------------+------------------------------+
| 1 | connected | inactive | ldap://localhost | 0.00496101379395 | uid=tuser,dc=example,dc=test |
| 2 | connected | inactive | ldap://localhost | 0.00532603263855 | uid=tuser,dc=example,dc=test |
+--------------+-----------+----------+------------------+--------------------+------------------------------+
ConnectionManager options
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Here are the options you can use when instanciating the pool:
- **uri**: ldap server uri **[mandatory]**
- **bind**: default bind that will be used to bind a connector.
**default: None**
- **passwd**: default password that will be used to bind a connector.
**default: None**
- **size**: pool size. **default: 10**
- **retry_max**: number of attempts when a server is down. **default: 3**
- **retry_delay**: delay in seconds before a retry. **default: .1**
- **use_tls**: activate TLS when connecting. **default: False**
- **timeout**: connector timeout. **default: -1**
- **use_pool**: activates the pool. If False, will recreate a connector
each time. **default: True**
The **uri** option will accept a comma or whitespace separated list of LDAP
server URIs to allow for failover behavior when connection errors are
encountered. Connections will be attempted against the servers in order,
with **retry_max** attempts per URI before failing over to the next server.
The **connection** method takes two options:
- **bind**: bind used to connect. If None, uses the pool default's.
**default: None**
- **passwd**: password used to connect. If None, uses the pool default's.
**default: None**