Re: How to use JLDAP to search for an entry in OpenLDAP using a binary search filter?

[Marc Boorshtein <mboorshtein@gmail.com>]

I believe you can escape the bytes in the filter with a "\".  So your filter would be "(byBinaryVal=\\2B\\1A)"

Marc

On 9/16/05, Safdar Kureishy <safdar.kureishy@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

This is a question about JLDAP and OpenLDAP, specifically about searching
using binary attribute values.

I'm using JLDAP to access OpenLDAP and I need to search for an entry using a
binary identifier. The only posting I could find about this is at this link,
but I wasn't able to understand the response:
http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200009/msg00096.html.

I was wondering if anyone could answer this question for me.

I have 2 options: (1) store the binary value as a base64 encoded string to
start with, so that I can query it as a string search filter, (2) to store
it in binary form and query it in binary form as well. I'm trying to use
option (2) if possible.

For option 2, I have the binary value to search for as a byte array
(byte[]). The current JLDAP apis don't seem to have an option to specify a
search filter for a byte[] value.

To cut the question short, to search for [binaryId = <somebinarydata>], what
would the JLDAPConnection.search() method take as parameters against an
OpenLDAP server?

Thanks in advance,
Safdar