How do I move part of the set-up in the applicationContext.xml to Java code?

[karldmoore]

Yeah your right sorry about that. The principal has the UserDetails. That will teach me for trying to work at the same time as doing something else :-).

[Luke Taylor]

The DN is a String, so details.getDn() probably isn't what you want. Just the UserDetails object.

[jtp51]

Everything is moving along smooth now, I appreciate everyone's help...

Staying on topic, I have the following:

Authentication userAuth = SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication();
        LdapUserDetails details = (LdapUserDetails) userAuth.getPrincipal();
        this.setUserDetails(details.getAttributes().toString());

Which outputs the the details of my LDAP User's object - that is what I want.

Now, from that point - how do I get a specific LDAP attribute from this point?

For example, I just want to get the values for the memberOf attribute, such as:

memberOf: CN=Users,OU=exchange dist groups,OU=company Groups,DC=company,DC=com,
CN=VPN Users,OU=company Groups,DC=company,DC=com

Since I have a Principle object, the Authentication interface doesn't have a method to get a attribute by ID or name?

Thanks,

[wizardofOz]

Hi!

The method getAttributes() on a UserDetails object delivers a collection, if I am not wrong.

See here:
http://www.acegisecurity.org/multipr...tailsImpl.html

and here:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/...ttributes.html

From the Attributes object you should retrieve all values you need (with get(<attrID>)). As I told before, I am not familiar with Ldap, but this is how I see it from the docs and sources.


Best regards,

Danny

[jtp51]

Thanks Danny, I missed that.

The following is what I needed:

Authentication userAuth = SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication();
            LdapUserDetails details = (LdapUserDetails) userAuth.getPrincipal();
            Attributes attributes = details.getAttributes();
            Attribute attr = attributes.get("memberOf");
            String memberOf = String.valueOf(attr.get());