Phase 1 of allowing admins to set the default object classes for users & groups

This adds the UI and does error checking of the selected object classes but
it doesn't actually use the values yet.

It also generalizes some functions for doing multi-valued fields.

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ipa-server/ipa-gui/ipagui/helpers/ipahelper.py b/ipa-server/ipa-gui/ipagui/helpers/ipahelper.py
index 9ea6b48ab..e5c2bd378 100644
--- a/ipa-server/ipa-gui/ipagui/helpers/ipahelper.py
+++ b/ipa-server/ipa-gui/ipagui/helpers/ipahelper.py
@@ -7,3 +7,34 @@ def javascript_string_escape(input):
     return re.sub(r'[\'\"\\]',
             lambda match: "\\%s" % match.group(),
             input)
+
+def setup_mv_fields(field, fieldname):
+    """Given a field (must be a list) and field name, convert that
+       field into a list of dictionaries of the form:
+          [ { fieldname : v1}, { fieldname : v2 }, .. ]
+
+   This is how we pre-fill values for multi-valued fields.
+    """
+    mvlist = []
+    if field:
+        for v in field:
+            if v:
+                mvlist.append({ fieldname : v } )
+    if len(mvlist) == 0:
+        # We need to return an empty value so something can be
+        # displayed on the edit page. Otherwise only an Add link
+        # will show, not an empty field.
+        mvlist.append({ fieldname : '' } )
+    return mvlist
+
+def fix_incoming_fields(fields, fieldname, multifieldname):
+    """This is called by the update() function. It takes the incoming
+       list of dictionaries and converts it into back into the original
+       field, then removes the multiple field.
+    """
+    fields[fieldname] = []
+    for i in range(len(fields[multifieldname])):
+        fields[fieldname].append(fields[multifieldname][i][fieldname])
+    del(fields[multifieldname])
+
+    return fields