org.springframework.security.ldap.search
Interface LdapUserSearch

All Known Implementing Classes:

FilterBasedLdapUserSearch

public interface LdapUserSearch

Obtains a user's information from the LDAP directory given a login name.

May be optionally used to configure the LDAP authentication implementation when a more sophisticated approach is required than just using a simple username->DN mapping.

Method Summary

DirContextOperations

searchForUser(String username) Locates a single user in the directory and returns the LDAP information for that user.

Method Detail

searchForUser

DirContextOperations searchForUser(String username)
                                   throws UsernameNotFoundException

Locates a single user in the directory and returns the LDAP information for that user.

Parameters:

username - the login name supplied to the authentication service.

Returns:

a DirContextOperations object containing the user's full DN and requested attributes.

Throws:

UsernameNotFoundException - if no user with the supplied name could be located by the search.