Frequently Asked Questions

Operational Attributes

  1. How do I remove an operational attribute using context.removeAttributeValue()?

Operational Attributes

How do I remove an operational attribute using context.removeAttributeValue()?

The DirContextAdapter will only read the visible attributes per default. This is because the operational attributes will only be returned by the server if explicitly asked for, and there is no way for Spring LDAP to know what attributes to ask for. This means that the DirContextAdapter will not be populated with the operational attributes, and hence the removeAttributeValue will not have any effect (since from the DirContextAdapter's point of view, it wasn't there in the first place).

There are basically two ways to do this:

  1. Use a search or lookup method that takes the attribute names as argument, like LdapTemplate#lookup(Name, String[], ContextMapper). Use a ContextMapper implementation that just returns the supplied DirContextAdapter in mapFromContext().
  2. Use LdapTemplate#modifyAttributes(Name, ModificationItem[]) directly, manually building the ModificationItem array.

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