Non-unique ldap attribute name with Unboundit LDAP SDK - attributes

Question

I am attempting to retrieve objects having several attributes with the name from netscape LDAP directory with LDAP SDK from Unboundit. The problem is that only one of the attributes are returned - I am guessing LDAP SDK relays heavily on unique attribute names, is there a way to configure it to also return non-distinct attributes as well?
#Test
public void testRetrievingUsingListener() throws LDAPException {
long currentTimeMillis = System.currentTimeMillis();
LDAPConnection connection = new LDAPConnection("xxx.xxx.xxx", 389,
"uid=xxx-websrv,ou=xxxx,dc=xxx,dc=no",
"xxxx");
SearchRequest searchRequest = new SearchRequest(
"ou=xxx,ou=xx,dc=xx,dc=xx",
SearchScope.SUB, "(uid=xxx)", SearchRequest.ALL_USER_ATTRIBUTES );
LDAPEntrySource entrySource = new LDAPEntrySource(connection,
searchRequest, true);
try {
while (true) {
try {
System.out.println("*******************************************");
Entry entry = entrySource.nextEntry();
if (entry == null) {
// There are no more entries to be read.
break;
} else {
Collection<Attribute> attributes = entry.getAttributes();
for (Attribute attr : attributes)
{
System.out.println (attr.getName() + " " + attr.getValue());
}
}
} catch (SearchResultReferenceEntrySourceException e) {
// The directory server returned a search result reference.
SearchResultReference searchReference = e
.getSearchReference();
} catch (EntrySourceException e) {
// Some kind of problem was encountered (e.g., the
// connection is no
// longer valid). See if we can continue reading entries.
if (!e.mayContinueReading()) {
break;
}
}
}
} finally {
entrySource.close();
}
System.out.println("Finished in " + (System.currentTimeMillis() - currentTimeMillis));
}

Answer 1

Non-unique LDAP attributes are considered multivalued and are reperesented as String array.
Use Attribute.getValues() instead of attribute.getValue.