Change the behaviour of addattr/setattr parameters.

setattr and addattr can now be used both to set all values of
ANY attribute. the last setattr always resets the attribute to
the specified value and all addattr append to it.

Examples:
user-mod testuser --setattr=title=msc
  title: msc
user-mod testuser --setattr=title=msb
  title: msb
user-mod testuser --addattr=title=msc
  title: msb, msc
user-mod testuser --setattr=title=
  title:
user-mod testuser --setattr=title=msc --addattr=msb
  title: msc, msb
user-mod testuser --setattr=title=ing --addattr=bc
  title: ing, bc
user-mod testuser --setattr=title=doc
  title: doc

It's not very user friendly, but it's going to be used very very
rarely in special conditions in the CLI and we can use it to save
lots of JSON-RPC roundtrips in the webUI.

This version includes calling the validation of Params during the setting of the attrs.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/ipalib/frontend.py b/ipalib/frontend.py
index d320f02e..1c4fea8c 100644
--- a/ipalib/frontend.py
+++ b/ipalib/frontend.py
@@ -519,11 +519,12 @@ class Command(HasParam):
             if len(value) == 0:
                 # None means "delete this attribute"
                 value = None
-            if attr not in self.params:
-                if append and attr in newdict:
-                    newdict[attr].append(value)
-                else:
-                    newdict[attr] = [value]
+            if attr in self.params:
+                value = self.params[attr](value)
+            if append and attr in newdict:
+                newdict[attr].append(value)
+            else:
+                newdict[attr] = [value]
         return newdict
 
     def __attributes_2_entry(self, kw):
@@ -540,7 +541,11 @@ class Command(HasParam):
             adddict = self.__convert_2_dict(kw['setattr'], append=False)
 
         if kw.get('addattr'):
-            adddict.update(self.__convert_2_dict(kw['addattr']))
+            for (k, v) in self.__convert_2_dict(kw['addattr']).iteritems():
+                if k in adddict:
+                    adddict[k] += v
+                else:
+                    adddict[k] = v
 
         for name in adddict:
             value = adddict[name]