When there are a very large number of attribute values (>1500) for a specific attribute, Active Directory will typically refuse to return all these values at once. Instead the attribute values will be returned according to the Incremental Retrieval of Multi-valued Properties method. This requires the calling part to inspect the returned attribute for specific markers and, if necessary, make additional lookup requests until all values are found.

Spring LDAP's org.springframework.ldap.core.support.DefaultIncrementalAttributesMapper helps working with this kind of attributes, as follows:

Attributes attrs = DefaultIncrementalAttributeMapper.lookupAttributes(ldapTemplate, theDn, new Object[]{"oneAttribute", "anotherAttribute"});
            

This will parse any returned attribute range markers and make repeated requests as necessary until all values for all requested attributes have been retrieved.