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Spring LDAP FAQ
Operational Attributes
How do I remove an operational attribute by using context.removeAttributeValue()
?
By default, the DirContextAdapter
reads only the visible attributes. This is because the operational attributes are returned by the server only if explicitly asked for, and there is no way for Spring LDAP to know the attributes for which to ask. This means that the DirContextAdapter
is not populated with the operational attributes. Consequently, the removeAttributeValue
does not have any effect (since, from the point of view of the DirContextAdapter
, it was not there in the first place).
There are basically two ways to do this:
-
Use a search or lookup method that takes the attribute names as an argument, such as
LdapTemplate#lookup(Name, String[], ContextMapper)
. Then use aContextMapper
implementation that returns the suppliedDirContextAdapter
inmapFromContext()
. -
Use
LdapTemplate#modifyAttributes(Name, ModificationItem[])
directly, manually building theModificationItem
array.