LDAPTemplate: modifyattributes throws invalidattributevalueexception on postalAddress

[Wlf2kme]

Hey,

Using Spring-ldap-core:1.3.0-RELEASE as version..

In order to CRUD an Ldap entry I'm using LdapTemplate with DirContextAdapter. Everything works except doing an update operation (U ^^ )

The LDAP entry is a User with a bunch of attributes. The add method looks like this and works fine:

public void add(User user) {
        DistinguishedName dn = (DistinguishedName) createDN(user);
        DirContextAdapter context = new DirContextAdapter(dn);
        mapUserToContext(user,context);


        context.setAttributeValues("objectClass",new String[]{
                "top","person","organizationalPerson","inetorgperson","inetuser"
        });


        getLdapTemplate().bind(dn,context,null);
    }

Then the update method. This throws:
javax.naming.directory.InvalidAttributeValueExcept ion: 'postalAddress' has no values.; remaining name .....

This is weird because it's true that postalAddress is null when I update it, but it's also null when I use the add method. There it doesn't throw an exception.

    public void update(User user) {
        DistinguishedName dn = (DistinguishedName) createDN(user);
        DirContextAdapter context = (DirContextAdapter) getLdapTemplate().lookup(dn);

        context.setAttributeValues("objectClass",new String[]{
                "top","person","organizationalPerson","inetorgperson","inetuser"
        });

        mapUserToContext(user,context);
        getLdapTemplate().modifyAttributes(dn,context.getModificationItems());
    }

Thanks in advance

[Wlf2kme]

Right.. So it was my own fault.

I made a typo / copy-paste error, namely:

setAttribute() to addAttribute. I was hardly noticeable as it was the only one in the bunch. Obviously on the postalAddress attribute. Logically in order to "add" an attribute it's got to have a value or it's pointless.

At least thanks for reading