Allow for toggling of LDAP attribute ordering #68628
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With some LDAP implementations attributes are not stored and returned in the order in which they were added, leading to the state repeatedly reporting changes. Introduce a toggle which enables internal sorting of old and new attributes and restores idempotency in such situations. Signed-off-by: Georg Pfuetzenreuter <georg.pfuetzenreuter@suse.com>
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| # convert the value sets to lists before returning them to the | ||
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Thanks for the pointer, that indeed needs to go too.
Currently I have this a bit stalled because I submitted python-ldap/python-ldap#604 in parallel, and in case that gets approved, it would be nice to make strict_order support a list of attributes instead of only a general toggle. Generally the improvements here would not do much without the patch in python-ldap (besides improving the output after removing the sorted() you mention), because the change would be reported but never committed.
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What does this PR do?
With some LDAP implementations attributes are not stored and returned in the order in which they were added, leading to the state repeatedly reporting changes. Introduce a toggle which enables internal sorting of old and new attributes and restores idempotency in such situations.
What issues does this PR fix or reference?
Fixes #68626.
Previous Behavior
Stray changes upon ordering differences.
New Behavior
No changes if ordering is not deemed relevant.
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