Dear Apache development team,
I need your help working with the LDAP APache API. I am working on a big
application that uses LDAP for saving/accessing useraccounts, groups and
machines. To access LDAP I decided to use your API, because after
testing and reading the guide and the javadocs it seemed very sane and
flexible to me. However now I run into some problems I cannot explain or
solve:
The following code works as expected.
DefaultEntry user = (DefaultEntry) ldapController.loadObject(...); //
public Entry loadObject(...)
user is now an object that is filled with attributes from the LDAP
server and can be worked with normally.
However, DefaultEntry is not sufficient for my application, I need to
extend it. Since DefaultEntry is a final class, I did the following:
public interface UserLDAPInterface extends Entry {
// some user-specific methods
}
public class UserLDAP implements UserLDAPInterface {
// implementation of both Entry methods and UserLDAPInterface methods
}
Now it should have worked, however:
UserLDAP user = (UserLDAP) ldapController.loadObject(...);
produces a ClassCastException. The above example with DefaultEntry does
not produce a ClassCastException, but works as expected. I copied all
the methods from DefaultEntry... So really don't understand what is the
issue there.
