lib/ldb: Implement a bytes derived object for attributes py2/py3
ldb attributes are either bytes (py3) or str (py2)
Some places in the code do str(res[0]['attribute'][0])
which results in
'result' (py2)
b'result' (py3)
or more commonly the attribute is used to construct a string e.g.
"blah=" + res[0]['attribute'][0] + ",foo,bar=...."
giving
"blah=result,foo,bar=...." (py2)
and very unhelpfully
"blah=b'result',foo,bar=...." (py3)
lots of code already constructs various strings for passing to other
api using the above. To avoid many excessive
res[0]['attribute'][0].decode('utf8')
code like 'res[0]['attribute'][0]'
will now return LdbBytes (a new object subclassing 'bytes') in py3
instead of bytes. This object has a custom '__str__' method which
attempts to return a string decoded to uft8. In Py2 this will behave as
it did previously (this is the safer option at the moment)
Signed-off-by: Noel Power <noel.power@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Schneider <asn@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Douglas Bagnall <douglas.bagnall@catalyst.net.nz>