Change user search to be asynchronous.

This way it returns results even if the search times out.
The find_users() search now returns a counter as the first result, which
is set to -1 if the results are partial.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/ipa-python/ipaclient.py b/ipa-python/ipaclient.py
index 9fd51db36..fcfb29f1d 100644
--- a/ipa-python/ipaclient.py
+++ b/ipa-python/ipaclient.py
@@ -94,12 +94,14 @@ class IPAClient:
         return result
 
     def find_users(self, criteria, sattrs=None):
-        """Find users whose uid matches the criteria. Wildcards are 
-           acceptable. Returns a list of User objects."""
+        """Return a list: counter followed by a User object for each user that
+           matches the criteria. If the results are truncated, counter will
+           be set to -1"""
         result = self.transport.find_users(criteria, sattrs)
+        counter = result[0]
 
-        users = []
-        for attrs in result:
+        users = [counter]
+        for attrs in result[1:]:
             if attrs is not None:
                 users.append(user.User(attrs))