s4:ldb Add ldb_ldif_write_string() and python wrappers

This allows us to turn a python LdbMessage back into a string.

Andrew Bartlett

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/source4/lib/ldb/include/ldb.h b/source4/lib/ldb/include/ldb.h
index 20f0f9cc5a..8972fc83e9 100644
--- a/source4/lib/ldb/include/ldb.h
+++ b/source4/lib/ldb/include/ldb.h
@@ -1450,6 +1450,20 @@ struct ldb_ldif *ldb_ldif_read_string(struct ldb_context *ldb, const char **s);
 int ldb_ldif_write_file(struct ldb_context *ldb, FILE *f, const struct ldb_ldif *msg);
 
 /**
+   Write an LDIF message to a string
+
+   \param ldb the ldb context (from ldb_init())
+   \param mem_ctx the talloc context on which to attach the string)
+   \param msg the message to write out
+
+   \return the string containing the LDIF, or NULL on error
+
+   \sa ldb_ldif_read_string for the reader equivalent to this function.
+*/
+char * ldb_ldif_write_string(struct ldb_context *ldb, TALLOC_CTX *mem_ctx, 
+			  const struct ldb_ldif *msg);
+
+/**
    Base64 encode a buffer
 
    \param mem_ctx the memory context that the result is allocated