Multi-LDAP Technical Documentation
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Add-on: Multi-LDAP - Technical Documentation
Architecture
Synthetic presentation of the architecture of the extension
This feature is developed in the form of a Thunderbird extension.
- Users autocompletion with multi-directory LDAP
This feature is based on the standard autocompletion from Thunderbird. It overload functions setupLdapAutocompleteSession(), AddDirectorySettingsObserver() and RemoveDirectorySettingsObserver() of the MsgComposeCommands.js file.
GUI files
- Global preferences:
- User account preferences:
Global configuration
- preferencesOverlay.xul file overload preferences.xul file. It includes the file composeLDAPOverlay.xul. It use the composeLDAPOverlay.js library
- composeLDAPOverlay.js : retrieve the LDAP server list configured. It builds dynamically all XML items to create the GUI servers list. This list is accessible from the global preferences, in the composition tab.
- The autocompletion is activated by setting the standard property Thunderbird, boolean type: ldap_2.autoComplete.useDirectory
- The property defining the LDAP server list, string type, to read is standard a Thunderbird property: ldap_2.autoComplete.ldapServers.
User account preferences
- Architecture is the same as above with a level less of inclusion (No file preferencesOverlay.xul). The file am-addressingOverlay.xul overloads am-addressingOverlay.xul. It uses the library file am-addressingOverlay.js
- To overload the global preference of the autocompletion LDAP, you must set the standard property Thunderbird, boolean type:: ldap_2.identity.%IDENTITYKEY%.multi_ldap_use_custom_preferences
- The property defining the LDAP serever list, string type, to read is standard a Thunderbird property: ldap_2.identity.%IDENTITYKEY%.autoComplete.ldapServers.
XPCOM files
This extension doesn't provided any new XPCOM. Mainly, it uses the built-in XPCOM nsIAutoCompleteSession and nsILDAPAutoCompFormatter that allows to manage the standard autocompletion on LDAP server.
