Using DirContextSource with Spring LDAP
DirContextSource
nicely intergrates with Spring LDAP by providing a thin wrapper around DirContextSource.Builder
exposed as a ContextSource
implementation: net.sf.michaelo.dirctxsrc.spring.DirContextSource
.
- Attention
- Contrary to previous statements, this library has to reside in the webapp classpath along with its dependencies (
spring-ldap-core
2.3.4.RELEASE+ andspring-beans
4.3.30.RELEASE+) to work properly.
In the first step, you have to tell Spring to create a bean and in the second step, let Spring autowire this bean to your class.
Add this to your beans.xml
, e.g., root-context.xml
or servlet-context.xml
:
<beans …> […] <!-- Add this --> <beans:bean class="net.sf.michaelo.dirctxsrc.spring.DirContextSource"> <beans:constructor-arg> <beans:array> <beans:value>ldap://hostname</beans:value> </beans:array> </beans:constructor-arg> </beans:bean> […] </beans>
Now wire this to your class of choice:
[…] @Autowired private ContextSource contextSource; // Alternatively, you can use setter injection […] public void myMethod() { // Now use the context source as same as in a regular webapp along with the LdapTemplate } […]