[entity] add an official ``cw_etype`` property for entity
This property holds the CWEtype id of the entity. This information was previously
available through __regid__ but this is an ugly public API. So we have a new
clean public API. The ``dc_type()`` method could not be used as it is
translated.
(closes #2793792)
from base64 import b64decode, b64encode
try:
uri, newdn = __args__
except ValueError:
print 'USAGE: cubicweb-ctl shell <instance> ldap_change_base_dn.py -- <ldap source uri> <new dn>'
print
print 'you should not have updated your sources file yet'
olddn = repo.config.sources()[uri]['user-base-dn']
assert olddn != newdn
raw_input("Ensure you've stopped the instance, type enter when done.")
for eid, extid in sql("SELECT eid, extid FROM entities WHERE source='%s'" % uri):
olduserdn = b64decode(extid)
newuserdn = olduserdn.replace(olddn, newdn)
if newuserdn != olduserdn:
print olduserdn, '->', newuserdn
sql("UPDATE entities SET extid='%s' WHERE eid=%s" % (b64encode(newuserdn), eid))
commit()
print 'you can now update the sources file to the new dn and restart the instance'