Get internal attributes with Spring LDAP

Question

I'm using Spring LDAP 1.3.0 library to access an internal LDAP server, with Java, but I'm having troubles to do one thing: how can I get an internal attribute of any structure of LDAP? For example, how can I get the memberOf attribute of an user?

I ever searched a lot but don't find anything about that using Spring LDAP. Any ideas will be very welcome. Thanks.

I found a way and it's very simple. Example: getLdapTemplate().search( "dc=MY_COMPANY,dc=com,dc=br", "(&(objectClass=person)(uid=USER_UID))", SearchControls.SUBTREE_SCOPE, new String[]{ "memberOf" }, new UserAttributeMapper() ); Observation: in this code, the UserAttributeMapper is just my own implementation of org.springframework.ldap.core.AttributesMapper. — bruno.zambiazi
– bruno.zambiazi, Commented Jan 4, 2012 at 18:25
Possible duplicate of Why does Spring LDAP's LdapTemplate not return title, department & company attributes? — Jaap
– Jaap, Commented Mar 11, 2019 at 10:08

fdelsert · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-24 16:06:35Z

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As you said in comment UserAttributeMapper is your friend !

If the user has more than one 'memberof' :

    static List<List<String>> getPersonGroupsByAccountName(String accountName){

    EqualsFilter filter = new EqualsFilter("sAMAccountName", accountName);
    return ldap.search(DistinguishedName.EMPTY_PATH,filter.encode(),new AttributesMapper(){
        public Object mapFromAttributes(
                javax.naming.directory.Attributes attrs)
        throws javax.naming.NamingException {
            List<String> memberof = new ArrayList();
            for (Enumeration vals = attrs.get("memberOf").getAll(); vals.hasMoreElements();) {
                memberof.add((String)vals.nextElement());
            }
            return memberof;
        }
    });

I'm sure there is a better way to do this but it works.

answered Aug 24, 2012 at 16:06

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BillFromHawaii Over a year ago

Thank you! Of all the search results of all the posts this was the only one that worked for me. +1.

fdelsert Over a year ago

I’m glad it was helpful for you !

ky.bai · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-21 01:59:26Z

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I use this to get fields like "createTimestamp" or "pwdChangedTime", and UserContextMapper you can reference resources: http://docs.spring.io/spring-ldap/docs/1.3.x-SNAPSHOT/reference/htmlsingle/

ldapTemplate.lookup(dn, new String[] {"*", "+"}, new UserContextMapper());

answered Jul 21, 2017 at 1:59

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Irina S. Jul 29 at 10:44

I would be curious about the referenced resource but unfortunately the link leads to a 404. Could you explain what the reference would show us?

Samuel EUSTACHI · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-20 08:54:47Z

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It also works with odmManager. Something like

DistinguishedName dn = new DistinguishedName("The path your are searching in");
SearchControls searchControls = new SearchControls();
searchControls.setReturningObjFlag(true);
searchControls.setReturningAttributes("your attributes, as an array of strings");
return odmManager.findAll(User.class, dn, searchControls);

I use this to get fields like "createTimestamp" ....

answered Apr 20, 2012 at 8:54

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