iterations of a list

[shul...@gmail.com]

I'm basically trying to get employees of a manger using ldap. The error I get is TypeError at /aboutus-test/ cannot concatenate 'str' and 'list' objects. I think the issue is it's taking the list of employees and trying to put them all into a function rather than one by one. But I am not sure how to solve the issue, hence being here.

python: 2.7

django: 1.8

sample of my ldap script:

def getFTEs(manager):
    conn = ldap.initialize("ldap://ourldapserver:389/")
    results = conn.search_s("o=domain.com", ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE, "uid=" + manager, attrlist=['employeetype'])
    if len(results) >= 1:
        Info = results[0][1]
        directsInfo = str(Info)
        directs = re.findall('\((.*?)\)', directsInfo)
        if directs != []:
            E = []
            for direct in directs:
                conn =  ldap.initialize("ldap://ourldapserver:389/")
                results = conn.search_s("o=domain.com", ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE, "uid=" + direct, attrlist=['employeetype'])
                directsinfo = results[0][1]
                code = directsinfo['employeetype'][0]
                if code == "F":
                    E.append(direct)
            return E
        else:
            return 'no directs'

ftes = getFTEs(manager)

def names(ftes):
    conn = ldap.initialize("ldap://ourldapserver:389/")
    results = conn.search_s("o=domain.com", ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE, "uid=" + ftes, attrlist=['gecos'])
    name2 = results[0][1]
    gecos = name2['gecos'][0]
    return gecos

I have one of these for all the fields I want.

views.py:

def aboutus(request):
    u = request.user.get_username()
    username = u.split("@")[0]
    ftes = getFTEs("managername")
    name = names(ftes)
    title = titles(ftes)
    bldg = buildings(ftes)
    email = emails(ftes)
    context = RequestContext(request, {
        'username': username,
        'ftes': ftes,
        'name': name,
        'title': title,
        'bldg': bldg,
        'email': email
        })
    return render(request, 'about-test.html', context)

in the template:

{% for item in ftes %}


    {{ item.name }}, {{ item.title }}, {{ item.bldg }}, {{ item.email }}<br>
{% endfor %}

[James Schneider]

On May 13, 2016 6:34 PM, <shul...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm basically trying to get employees of a manger using ldap. The error I get is TypeError at /aboutus-test/ cannot concatenate 'str' and 'list' objects. I think the issue is it's taking the list of employees and trying to put them all into a function rather than one by one. But I am not sure how to solve the issue, hence being here.
>

Can you post the entire traceback? Without it, we don't know which line is causing the error.

-James

[Shu Latif]

It's this line in names(ftes)

    results = conn.search_s("o=domain.com", ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE, "uid=" + ftes, attrlist=['gecos'])

[James Schneider]

On May 14, 2016 1:19 PM, "Shu Latif" <shul...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's this line in names(ftes)
>
>     results = conn.search_s("o=domain.com", ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE, "uid=" + ftes, attrlist=['gecos'])
>

getFTE() can return with a string or with a list. You are using that value for ftes when calling names(ftes).

The line for your LDAP search is only expecting a string as a value for ftes, so it will bomb every time getFTE() returns a list.

-James