Re: [Springframework-developer] spring-ldap

[Mattias A. <mat...@ja...>]

Looks interesting. I'm sure it could be quite useful and would love to know more about the tool.
Cheers,
Mattias Arthursson
Spring LDAP Team

2007-01-08 Jasper Blues  wrote:

Hello Spring Developers, 
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>Especially Spring-ldap developers may be interested in this post: I'veimplemented an "Object Directory Mapping" tool (not the one that comesup when you do a google search) based on ContextMapper &ContextAssembler that uses annotations on a Directory Entity. Forexample: 
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>@NamingAttribute("uid")
>@NamingSuffix({"ou=people"})
>@ObjectClasses({"top", "person", "organizationalPerson","inetorgperson"})
>public class TestPerson
>{
>/*********************************** Directory mapped fields************************************/
>@DirAttribute("uid")
>private String identifier;
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>@DirAttribute("sn")
>private String lastName;
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>@DirAttribute("givenName")
>private String givenName;
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>@DirAttribute("cn")
>private String fullName;
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>@DirAttribute("mail")
>private String emailAddress;
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>@DirAttribute("userpassword")
>private byte[] password;
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>@DirAttribute("active")
>private Boolean isActive;
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>@DirAttribute("registrationDate")
>private Date registrationDate;
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>@DirAttribute("rating")
>private Long rating;
>
>/************************************************************************************************/
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>The interface for the DAOimplementation is as follows: 
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>public interface LdapDao
>{
>void create(Object dirObject);
>
>void update(Object dirObject);
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>void delete(Object dirObject);
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>Object findByNamingAttribute(String namingValue, Class returnType);
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>public Object findByDn(Name dn, Class returnType);
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>void createOrUpdate(Object dirObject);
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>List findAll(Class ofType);   
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>List filterByBeanProperty(String value, String beanPropertyName,Class returnType);
>}
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>Type translation is based onSpring's own BeanPropertyEditors with custom editors registered forGeneralizedTime and DistinguishedName. 
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>There is also support for for loading referenced entries. Ie a RoleObject containing a Person[] members field will populated / updated. 
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>public class TestRole
>{
>/*********************************** Directory mapped fields************************************/
>@DirAttribute("cn")
>private String roleName;
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>@DirAttribute
>private String description;
>
>@DirAttribute("roleOccupant")
>private TestPerson[] members;
>
>/******************************
>}
>
>The whole thing ways in atjust 18 small class files, a few hundred lines of code and it's veryfast. I'm not sure if this is useful to more people than just myself,but if you'd like to know more, let me know. 
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>Best Regards, 
>Jasper
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