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Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 16:23:58 +0200
From: Emmanuel Lecharny <elecharny@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: 1.5.5 convertAttributesFromLdif : An entry must not have two
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Tom Zeller wrote:
> In trunk, it looks like LdifUtils.convertAttributesFromLdif() throws a
> NamingException for ldif containing a dn.
>   
Plain normal, but might be confusing. What happens is that this method 
tries to convert something stored using a LDIF format to an Attributes 
(JNDI). Attributes objects don't contain a DN, only attributes.

This method is a bit confusing, as it does not state that it does not 
try to convert only the attributes.

If you want to parse a LDIF to get an Attributes object, you have to use 
the LdifReader.parseLdif( String ), you'll get a List of Entry objects, 
and loop on the entry's attributes to convert them to Attribute, and 
store them into an Attributes.

FYI, we have defined a new set of classes to manage LDAP elements, based 
on the Entry element (basically, an entry is a DN plus a set of attributes).

Hope it helps.

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Emmanuel L�charny
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