Hi Stefan,
Thank you for your help, it worked!
For those people that come across this problem in a Grails project, here's
the steps to set a specific entry to binary format.
1. Create a new properties file call "jndi.properties" and add it to your
grails-app/conf directory (all property files in this folder are
automatically included in the classpath)
2. Add a line in the properties file with the name of the image variable:
java.naming.ldap.attributes.binary=some_custom_image
3. Save the file and run the Grails application
4. Here is some sample code to save a binary entry to a file:
def ldap = org.apache.directory.groovyldap.LDAP.newInstance('ldap://
some.server.com/ou=People,o=Acme')
ldap.eachEntry (filter: 'id=1234567') { entry ->
def image = entry.image
new File('/var/dir/something.jpg').withOutputStream {
it.write image
}
}
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Stefan Zoerner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Jess!
>
> The problem here is that that Groovy LDAP uses JNDI under the hood. The
> same probem would occur with JNDI.
> See: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/jndi/tutorial/ldap/misc/attrs.html (to
> be more precise: "Specifying Additional Nonstring Attributes")
>
> Groovy LDAP works fine with binary attributes which are binary for JNDI by
> default (e.g. jpegphoto). "image" is not in the list, you have to add it
> manually.
> In JNDI, you would set a property to specify which attributes are binary:
>
> ...
> env.put("java.naming.ldap.attributes.binary", "image");
> ...
> Later create JNDI InitialContext with env
>
> The problem is that LDAP Groovy hides the creation of both the env and
> InitialContexts.
>
> I see two (fast) options:
> a) change Groovy LDAP source by yourself and add the env property in class
> LDAP (file LDAP.java, method createEnvironment())
> b) add a jndi.properties file to the classpath, which would be mixed with
> the env Groovy LDAP uses
>
> content of the file for b) only one line:
>
> java.naming.ldap.attributes.binary=image
>
> Please let me know if workaround b) works for you, or if you need more
> help.
> We can add a feature to Groovy LDAP for that, which would make perfect
> sense to me.
>
> Greetings from Hamburg,
> StefanZ
>
>
>
>
> Am 29.03.2013 06:19, schrieb Jess Johnson:
>
> I'm having difficulty retrieving binary data from an OpenLDAP server and
> was hoping someone could point me in the right direction. I read on the
> message board that binary data comes back as incomplete or corrupted unless
> the client specifies what attribute is binary.
>
> I wrote similar functionality in another language to test and everything
> worked as expected. I'm able to retrieve all other values (Strings) except
> binary data.
>
> def ldap = org.apache.directory.groovyldap.LDAP.newInstance('ldap://
> some.server.com/ou=People,o=Acme')
> ldap.eachEntry (filter: 'id=1234567') { entry ->
>
> def image = entry.image.getBytes()
>
> new File('/var/dir/something.jpg').withOutputStream {
> it.write image
> }
> }
>
> Where would I specify the attribute "image" is binary?
>
> Thanks,
> Jess
>
>
>
