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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:18:16 -0500
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Hi Emmanuel,

The Context is actually initialised, but here I depicted just for=20
illustration purposes. We have a context initialised by Spring and we use
the initialised context.

email2 is a multi values User attribute which we use to store secondary=20
email ids for a user=20


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Emmanuel Lecharny <elecharny@gmail.com>=20
12/15/2009 01:13 PM
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Re: APACHE DS 1.5.5 Embedded - Updating multi values attributes with nulls


RNakka@osc.state.ny.us a =E9crit :
> Hi,
>=20
Hi,
> We are using APACHE DS 1.5.5 in embedded mode for testng tests. During=20
> some of our tests , we  are trying  to update a User's multi valued=20
> attributes
>
> If we pass not null values, then the attributes are updated with out any =


> problem.But if we pass a null value or an empty list we get a null=20
pointer=20
> exception and the attribute is not updated. Please find the exception=20
> trace attached below.
>
> This was working in APACHE DS 1.5.4 ( NOT embedded version) server
>
> We are using Spring LDAP 1.3 API to connect and perform operations on=20
the=20
> embedded APACHE DS from testng.=20
>
> We tried two ways to update the multi valued attribute (email2) with a=20
> null. Our goal is to not have any values in the multi valued attribute=20
> (email2)
>
> 1. Trying to remove the attribute from user in APACHE DS, as its desired =


> to be null
>
>         DirContextOperations context;
>         context.removeAttributeValue("email2", oldValuesArray);
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The context is not initialized to anything... Is it normal ?

Also what is the email2 definition ?

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