Use a Conditional Statement When Configuring an LDAP Directory in Crowd?

[Adam Myatt]

In Crowd 2.3 or newer, I have a Directory configured using LDAP (Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition). On the COnfiguration tab, the field first name, last name etc get LDAP attribute like 'givenName' ,'sn', etc.

Is it poossible to use a conditional statement somehow in these field tyo pull in one field and if it is blank use another?

For example :

In our LDAP we have givenName (representing first name) and otherName (representing the shorter variant of a preferred name - i.e. Bob instead of Robert).

Is it possible to use a conditional to specify to use otherName unless it is blank then user givenName?

[JustinK]

Yes, Crowd uses a ContextMapper to map a directory context object to a Crowd domain object (Group or User). These context mappers are really just a simple map, that looks for a given key in the directory context, and if present sets the value of the key on the object.

The keys are the values you enter into the directory configuration screen, so really, you would need to provide some custom behaviour on the context mapper to allow for a conditional lookup to be performed.

[Adam Myatt]

So this would be accomplished through custom coding or extending existing code in Crowd? There is no way out of the box without having to code something?

[JustinK]

Sorry for the slow reply. Yes, the only option at the moment is to extend the Crowd source, there is no 'out of the box' solution to this issue at present, unless there is a way in your LDAP server to provide this type of functionality (which I don't think there is)

[Radu Dumitriu]

I don't think so.

[Adam Myatt]

So this would be accomplished through custom coding or extending existing code in Crowd? There is no way out of the box without having to code something?