org.springframework.ldap.core.support
Interface BaseLdapPathSource

All Known Subinterfaces:

BaseLdapPathContextSource

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractContextSource, DirContextSource, LdapContextSource

public interface BaseLdapPathSource

Implementations of this interface are capable of providing a base LDAP path. The base LDAP path is the root path to which all LDAP operations performed on a particular context are relative.

Author:

Mattias Hellborg Arthursson

See Also:

ContextSource

Method Summary

DistinguishedName	getBaseLdapPath() Get the base LDAP path as a DistinguishedName.
String	getBaseLdapPathAsString() Get the base LDAP path as a String.

Method Detail

getBaseLdapPath

DistinguishedName getBaseLdapPath()

Get the base LDAP path as a DistinguishedName.

Returns:

the base LDAP path as a DistinguishedName. The path will be empty if no base path is specified.

getBaseLdapPathAsString

String getBaseLdapPathAsString()

Get the base LDAP path as a String.

Returns:

the base LDAP path as a An empty String will be returned if no base path is specified.