[rabbitmq-discuss] Fine-grained LDAP access to resources
Simon MacMullen
simon at rabbitmq.com
Mon Sep 23 16:56:35 BST 2013
On 23/09/13 15:18, James M. wrote:
> I took a shot at modifying and compiling the ldap plugin and came up
> with a seemingly working solution. I'm just getting my feet wet with
> Erlang but does this have any glaring issues at first glance? I'm
> basically adding a new derived value to the Args list so that when it's
> sent to fill() ${prefix} is properly expanded.
Based on a quick look at the code, nothing is too wrong from a low level
point of view. However, this is wrong:
case Predicate of
true -> Var = Something;
false -> Var = SomethingElse
end,
since although Var happens to escape the inner scope in all cases, it's
not very clear and modern Erlang compilers will complain. Instead you want:
Var = case Predicate of
true -> Something;
false -> SomethingElse
end,
> My follow up question would be, what are the chances of getting
> something similar to this added to the official code base?
However, I'd be reluctant to merge this; conceptually it's very specific
to your use case - what if you want to match something other than up to
the first '.'? What if you want to do that on something other than the
resource name?
Really you want to be able to write something like ${name.prefix('.')}.
That is (obviously) much more complicated though.
It's possible some half-way house could exist between these two
extremes; if so I can't immediately think of it.
Cheers, Simon
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Simon MacMullen
RabbitMQ, Pivotal
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