prevent lookups on ImageField and ListField for now

[matthijs/upstream/django-ldapdb.git] / ldapdb / __init__.py

diff --git a/ldapdb/__init__.py b/ldapdb/__init__.py
index 60b6c865710b64130469fe4f51f4a8194b1ade6f..4f9392e90c2a8c6802e721afaf9564bd2533f609 100644 (file)
--- a/ldapdb/__init__.py
+++ b/ldapdb/__init__.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 # 
 # django-ldapdb
-# Copyright (C) 2009 Bolloré telecom
+# Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Bolloré telecom
 # See AUTHORS file for a full list of contributors.
 # 
 # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -31,7 +31,15 @@ def convert(field, value, func):
         return [ func(x) for x in value ]
     else:
         return func(value)
-        
+
+def escape_ldap_filter(value):
+    value = str(value)
+    return value.replace('\\', '\\5c') \
+                .replace('*', '\\2a') \
+                .replace('(', '\\28') \
+                .replace(')', '\\29') \
+                .replace('\0', '\\00')
+
 class LdapConnection(object):
     def __init__(self, server, bind_dn, bind_password):
         self.connection = ldap.initialize(server)