On 5/3/10 10:15 PM, Roland Berger wrote:
Hello
I was looking for a way to import my outlook addresses into an open
ldap server to be able to use evolution as an outlook replacement.
There is no easy and automatic way to do it so I started to think to
write a csv to ldif converter.
The basic idea is to have on one side the csv headers on the other
side attributes of some objectclasses defined in a schema and do the
mapping in an gui. Before starting to write my own ldif parser I'm
sure you guys have already done it. I have searched the apache ds
websites but found only little code which might be reusable to suite
my idea. May be its because apache ds is a huge project. Can anyone
point me to the right place to start reading and tell me if apache ds
would be interested for a contribution like this?
We don't have such a CVS to LDIF converter yet. We do have a Ldif to CVS
converter.
We would love to have something that does the conversion though !
The best would be to have it in Ldap Studio.
FYI, 6 years ago, I wrote such a tool, and AFAIR, the real issue is the
mapping. LDAP Attributes may be multi-valued, and each attribute must
have a name. Assuming that the first row contains the LDAP attribute's
name, that would be quite easy to transform a CVS file to LDIF.
We do have some convenient classes and methods to manipulate LDIF files,
and in your case, you might be interested in those classes :
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/directory/shared/trunk/ldap-ldif/src/main/java/org/apache/directory/shared/ldap/ldif/
The LdifEntry class is the one contaning an LDAP entry, so when you have
created an Entry (that's another class you can find in
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/directory/shared/trunk/ldap/src/main/java/org/apache/directory/shared/ldap/entry/),
you can produce a LDIF file using the LdifUtils.java class.
<http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/directory/shared/trunk/ldap/src/main/java/org/apache/directory/shared/ldap/entry/>
Hope it helps !
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Regards,
Cordialement,
Emmanuel Lécharny
www.nextury.com
