Servlets and LDAP - Developing Java Servlets - page 169

public Attributes parseAttributes(HashMap attributes) {

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if (attributes == null) {

return null;

}

Attributes newAtts = new BasicAttributes();

// get an iterator for all of the keys in the HashMap
Iterator attIter = attributes.keySet().iterator();
while (attIter.hasNext()) {

// get the value for the key.
String attName = (String)attIter.next();
Object value = attributes.get(attName);

// create a new Attribute
Attribute attribute = new BasicAttribute(attName, value);

// add the attribute to the list of attributes
newAtts.put(attribute);

}

return newAtts;

}

Client code can use this method to add objects to any place in the directory tree. Because you
are dealing with a phone book, you will be adding the proper information in the People
branch. The client code to do this would look like this:

LDAPManager lm = new LDAPManager();
String[] objectClass = {“top”,
“person”,
“organizationalPerson”,
“inetOrgPerson”};

String dn = “uid=bjones,ou=People,o=virtuas.com”;

HashMap atts = new HashMap();
atts.put(“cn”, “Bob Jones”);
atts.put(“sn”, “Jones”);
atts.put(“givenName”, “Bob”);
atts.put(“uid”, “bjones”);
atts.put(“mail”, “[e-mail]”);
atts.put(“telephoneNumber”, “[phone]”);