convert ldap object guid to hex string and back #python #ldap #snippet

convert_ldap_objectguid.py

# source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25299971/python-ldap-converting-objectguid-to-hex-string-and-back

def guid2hexstring(val):
    s = ['\\%02X' % ord(x) for x in val]
    return ''.join(s)

guid = ldapobject.get('objectGUID', [''])[0] # 'Igr\xafb\x19ME\xb2P9c\xfb\xa0\xe2w'
guid2string(guid).replace("\\", "") # '496772AF62194D45B2503963FBA0E277'

#and back to a value you can use in an ldap search filter

guid = ''.join(['\\%s' % guid[i:i+2] for i in range(0, len(guid), 2)]) # '\\49\\67\\72\\AF\\62\\19\\4D\\45\\B2\\50\\39\\63\\FB\\A0\\E2\\77'

searchfilter = ('(objectGUID=%s)' % guid)

# alternatively,
# this works to convert to LDAP Browser-compatible GUID
def guid_to_string(binary_guid):
    import uuid
    return str(uuid.UUID(bytes_le=binary_guid)).lower()