com.atlassian.crowd.directory.ldap.util
Class DirectoryAttributeRetriever

java.lang.Object
  com.atlassian.crowd.directory.ldap.util.DirectoryAttributeRetriever

public class DirectoryAttributeRetriever
extends Object

Constructor Summary

DirectoryAttributeRetriever()

Method Summary

static String	getValueFromAttributes(String directoryAttributeName, Attributes directoryAttributes) Retrieves the first value from the collection of attributes for the supplied name directoryAttributeName.
static String	getValueFromExternalIdAttribute(String externalIdAttribute, Attributes directoryAttributes) Retrieves the first value from the collection of attributes for the supplied name externalIdAttribute.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

DirectoryAttributeRetriever

public DirectoryAttributeRetriever()

Method Detail

getValueFromAttributes

public static String getValueFromAttributes(String directoryAttributeName,
                                            Attributes directoryAttributes)

Retrieves the first value from the collection of attributes for the supplied name directoryAttributeName. If no value exists or if the value is not safe for XML marshalling, null is returned.

Parameters:

directoryAttributeName - attribute name key.

directoryAttributes - collection of attributes to examine.

Returns:

first attribute value.

getValueFromExternalIdAttribute

public static String getValueFromExternalIdAttribute(String externalIdAttribute,
                                                     Attributes directoryAttributes)

Retrieves the first value from the collection of attributes for the supplied name externalIdAttribute. If name of the attribute is empty or no value for attribute exists empty string is returned

Parameters:

externalIdAttribute - name of external Id attribute

directoryAttributes - collection of attributes

Returns:

null if there is no attribute name, empty string if there is no value for an attribute name, value of attribute otherwise