Using LDAP resource with LdapTemplate

[seprak]

Hi,

I have my ldap directory context specified as a resource in Tomcat's context.xml:

<Resource name="ldap/myres"
              auth="Container"
              type="com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx"
              factory="com.mytutorial.LdapContextFactory"
              java.naming.factory.initial="com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory"
              com.sun.jndi.ldap.connect.pool="true"
              java.naming.provider.url="ldap://localhost:389/dc=mycomp,dc=com"
              java.naming.security.authentication="simple"
              java.naming.security.principal="cn=Manager,dc=mycomp,dc=com"
              java.naming.security.credentials="secret"/>

Now i would like to use this resource with LdapTemplate instead of specifying LdapContextSource bean. Is this possible? How can I use context resource with LdapTemlate?

Thanks for answer.

[rasky]

You will have to create a custom ContextSource implementation. Just implement the ContextSource interface and have your implementation return the resource from JNDI in getReadOnlyContext() and getReadWriteContext(). You might even have it injected to your ContextSource using a JndiFactoryBean to spare you from that trouble.

Note however that the context will be closed after each LdapTemplate operation. I don't know exactly how this particular managed resource works, but in order for it to work together with Spring LDAP it will have to supply a clean, new LdapContext for each request.

[ZipwiZ]

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