Github user necouchman commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/guacamole-client/pull/345#discussion_r241916700
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extensions/guacamole-auth-ldap/src/main/java/org/apache/guacamole/auth/ldap/conf/LdapFilterGuacamoleProperty.java
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+
+package org.apache.guacamole.auth.ldap.conf;
+
+import java.text.ParseException;
+import org.apache.directory.api.ldap.model.filter.ExprNode;
+import org.apache.directory.api.ldap.model.filter.FilterParser;
+import org.apache.guacamole.GuacamoleException;
+import org.apache.guacamole.GuacamoleServerException;
+import org.apache.guacamole.properties.GuacamoleProperty;
+
+/**
+ * A GuacamoleProperty with a value of an ExprNode query filter. The
string
+ * provided is passed through the FilterParser returning the ExprNode
object,
+ * or an exception is thrown if the filter is invalid and cannot be
correctly
+ * parsed.
+ */
+public abstract class LdapFilterGuacamoleProperty implements
GuacamoleProperty<ExprNode> {
+
+ @Override
+ public ExprNode parseValue(String value) throws GuacamoleException {
+
+ // No value provided, so return null.
+ if (value == null)
+ return null;
+
+ try {
+ return FilterParser.parse(value);
+ }
+ catch (ParseException e) {
+ throw new GuacamoleServerException("Error parsing filter", e);
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Will reword.
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