Use ContextMapper to search for users

src/main/java/sample/controller/LdapUserController.java

@@ -39,17 +39,18 @@ public List<User> getUserList() {
 
 	@RequestMapping("/test/userlookup")
 	@ResponseBody
-	public User getUserByString() {
+	public User getUserByString(@RequestParam(value="uid", defaultValue="test.001") String uid) {
 		log.info("Testing user lookup using String Dn");
-		return ldapUserService.findUserByString("uid=fairuz.ismail,ou=people");
+		String str = "uid=" + uid + ",ou=people";
+		return ldapUserService.findUserByString(str);
 	}
 
 	@RequestMapping("/test/userlookup2")
 	@ResponseBody
-	public User getUser() {
+	public User getUser(@RequestParam(value="uid", defaultValue="test.001") String uid) {
 		log.info("Testing user lookup");
 		User user = new User();
-		user.setUid("fairuz.ismail");
+		user.setUid(uid);
 		return ldapUserService.findUser(user);
 	}
 

src/main/java/sample/domain/LdapUserDaoImpl.java

@@ -16,8 +16,10 @@
 import org.springframework.ldap.NameAlreadyBoundException;
 import org.springframework.ldap.NameNotFoundException;
 import org.springframework.ldap.core.AttributesMapper;
+import org.springframework.ldap.core.DirContextOperations;
 import org.springframework.ldap.core.LdapTemplate;
 import org.springframework.ldap.support.LdapNameBuilder;
+import org.springframework.ldap.core.support.AbstractContextMapper;
 import org.springframework.security.authentication.encoding.LdapShaPasswordEncoder;
 import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
 
@@ -51,6 +53,17 @@ public User mapFromAttributes(Attributes attrs) throws NamingException {
 			return person;
 		}
 	}
+
+	// use this or above. This one should be better
+	private static class PersonContextMapper extends AbstractContextMapper<User> {
+		public User doMapFromContext(DirContextOperations context) {
+			User p = new User();
+			p.setFullName(context.getStringAttribute("cn"));
+			p.setLastName(context.getStringAttribute("sn"));
+			p.setUid(context.getStringAttribute("uid"));
+			return p;
+		}
+	}
 
 	private Attributes buildAttributes(User user) {
 		Attributes attrs = new BasicAttributes();
@@ -87,7 +100,8 @@ public User findUserByString(String dn) {
 	}
 
 	public User findUser(User user) {
-		return ldapTemplate.lookup(buildDn(user), new PersonAttributesMapper());
+		//return ldapTemplate.lookup(buildDn(user), new PersonAttributesMapper());
+		return ldapTemplate.lookup(buildDn(user), new PersonContextMapper());
 	}
 
 	public void create(User user) throws NameAlreadyBoundException {