search problem: search by c = sth.

[allen-zhe]

Hi All,

there is a problem about searching items.

if I have these two persons in my ldap DB
"cn=Some Person2,ou=company1,c=Sweden,dc=example,dc=com"
"cn=Some Person,ou=company2,c=Sweden,dc=example,dc=com"

how could i find them all by c=Sweden? it means how could i find person and person2 by their country name Sweden? And how to implement in coding?

thanks in advance!

[rasky]

In this case you'd need to use the search base to specify where in the tree to start the search, i.e.:

DistinguishedName dn = new DistinguishedName();
dn.add("c", "Sweden");

return ldapTemplate.search(dn, "(objectclass=person)", new AttributesMapper(){...});

Note that the above depends on that the ContextSource base is set to

dc=example,dc=com

Also note that if you'd want to find persons based on company, i.e. ou=company1 regardless of which country the solution would be much more complicated. In that case you'd need to first find all the matching companies and then loop over these and find the corresponding persons based on each respective company's DN, as in the example above.

[allen-zhe]

Thanks a lot, rasky!
I got ur idea about use the search base to specify where in the tree to start the search, and i tried. It works now!
Also thanks about the company based search idea!~

[nvrprasad]

Hi,
When I am using new AttributeMapper while doing ldaptemplate.search it is throwing an error message saying 'cannot instaniate AttributesMapper'. Can anyone help me . Below is the code, I am wirting.

return ldapTemplate.search("", filter.encode(),new AttributesMapper()).

I appreciate if anyone can help me soon

Thanks
Prasad

[rasky]

AttributesMapper is an interface. You'll need to supply an implementation of that.

[nvrprasad]

Can anyone help me in reading LDAP using spring LDAPTemplate to search using multiple user ids simultaneously. I am trying to sync data in a database table from LDAP for all the user ids on a timely fashion.


Any help is really appreciated


Thanks
Prasad