Hi Marc,
Thanks for your suggestions. I tried to create a subclass of LDAPConnection but I was getting a lot of problems accessing non-public methos/classes belonging to com.novell.java package. But it gave me a different idea, I finally got it to work using a custom socket factory.
First I create an LDAPIUrl to parse LDAPI URL:
LDAPIUrl url = new LDAPIUrl("ldapi://%2ftmp%2ftest");
Then I create a LDAPISocketFactory and pass it to LDAPConnection:
LDAPISocketFactory factory = new LDAPISocketFactory(); LDAPConnection connection = new LDAPConnection(factory);
To establish the connection I use the hostname parameter of the connect() function to pass the LDAPI path:
connection.connect(url.getPath(), 0);
The socket factory will use the path to create the Unix domain socket and ignore the port:
public Socket createSocket(String path, int port) {
AFUNIXSocket socket = AFUNIXSocket.newInstance(); socket.connect(new AFUNIXSocketAddress(new File(path)));
return socket; }
So thanks a lot and never mind about the proposal. :)
-- Endi S. Dewata
----- "Marc Boorshtein" mboorshtein@gmail.com wrote:
Endi,
A few years ago I was able to add DSMLv2 and SPMLv1 support to JLDAP by creating subclasses of the LDAPConnection class. This worked well without requiring changes to the rest of the JLDAP source code. I used JLDAP as the core for the SQL Directory Browser, which supports both SPML and DSMLv2. I think the same strategy would work with LDAPI?
Marc
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Endi Sukma Dewata edewata@redhat.com wrote:
Hello,
Let me introduce myself, I'm working on the IPA & Samba integration effort and I'm building a Java-based synchronization tool that communicates with LDAP servers using the JLDAP library. Here is
some
background about the project: http://www.freeipa.org/page/IPAv3_development_status
The LDAP servers used here is the 389 DS (formerly known as Fedora DS). When it's used as Samba private backend, the DS is configured only to listen to LDAPI protocol. I'm trying to use the JLDAP
library,
but currently it doesn't seem to support LDAPI. I think it's
natural
to add LDAPI support into JLDAP because OpenLDAP also supports
LDAPI.
Is there already a plan to add this feature?
I've been doing some investigation and it seems that it can be
added
without too much effort because there's an existing library called junixsocket which can provide access to Unix Domain Sockets from
Java:
http://code.google.com/p/junixsocket/
Here is a proposal of the changes need to be made to JLDAP in order to support LDAPI: http://www.freeipa.org/page/OpenLDAP_LDAPI_Support_in_JLDAP
My questions are:
- Who is currently maintaining the JLDAP module?
- Is it ok to modify the IETF API slightly as described in the
proposal? 3. Is it ok to include junixsocket in JLDAP? Alternatively we could design a pluggable interface so other people can add new protocol schemes into JLDAP.
Please let me know if you have any comments, questions, or suggestions. Thank you very much.
-- Endi S. Dewata
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Endi Sukma Dewata