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

[Safdar Kureishy <safdar.kureishy@gmail.com>]

Btw, should this hex encoded value be preceded with the "0x" string (e.g. 
"0x\22\45\A0\33")? I'm sorry if this question is trivial, but I am unable to 
try this out right now as I'm in the middle of the implementation process 
... The reason I ask is that Active Directory requires a "0x" prefix 
followed by the escaped hex-encoding of the individual bytes - if OpenLDAP 
and AD require different prefixes for this, that'll impact my design, 
otherwise I can reuse the same code for both...

Thanks,
Safdar


On 9/18/05, Safdar Kureishy <safdar.kureishy@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Marc.
> 
> On 9/16/05, Marc Boorshtein < mboorshtein@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 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
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
>