As shown in the following excerpt with a synchronous connection, you
get a Connection
to the directory server from an
LDAPConnectionFactory
.
final LDAPConnectionFactory factory = new LDAPConnectionFactory(host, port); Connection connection = null; try { connection = factory.getConnection(); // Do something with the connection... } catch (Exception e) { // Handle exceptions... } finally { if (connection != null) { connection.close(); } }
The Connection
gives you search()
methods that either take parameters in the style of the
ldapsearch command, or that take a
SearchRequest
object. If you are sure that the search only
returns a single entry, you can read the entry with the
searchSingleEntry()
methods. If you have the distinguished
name, you can use readEntry()
directly.
For a complete example in context, see Search.java, one of the OpenDJ LDAP SDK examples.