JavaTM 2 Platform Std. Ed. v1.6.0
javax.naming.ldap
Interface ExtendedRequest
- All Superinterfaces:
- Serializable
- All Known Implementing Classes:
- StartTlsRequest
public interface ExtendedRequest - extends Serializable
This interface represents an LDAPv3 extended operation request as defined in
RFC 2251.
ExtendedRequest ::= [APPLICATION 23] SEQUENCE {
requestName [0] LDAPOID,
requestValue [1] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL }
It comprises an object identifier string and an optional ASN.1 BER
encoded value.
The methods in this class are used by the service provider to construct
the bits to send to the LDAP server. Applications typically only deal with
the classes that implement this interface, supplying them with
any information required for a particular extended operation request.
It would then pass such a class as an argument to the
LdapContext.extendedOperation() method for performing the
LDAPv3 extended operation.
For example, suppose the LDAP server supported a 'get time' extended operation.
It would supply GetTimeRequest and GetTimeResponse classes:
public class GetTimeRequest implements ExtendedRequest {
public GetTimeRequest() {... };
public ExtendedResponse createExtendedResponse(String id,
byte[] berValue, int offset, int length)
throws NamingException {
return new GetTimeResponse(id, berValue, offset, length);
}
...
}
public class GetTimeResponse implements ExtendedResponse {
long time;
public GetTimeResponse(String id, byte[] berValue, int offset,
int length) throws NamingException {
time = ... // decode berValue to get time
}
public java.util.Date getDate() { return new java.util.Date(time) };
public long getTime() { return time };
...
}
A program would use then these classes as follows:
GetTimeResponse resp =
(GetTimeResponse) ectx.extendedOperation(new GetTimeRequest());
long time = resp.getTime();
- Since:
- 1.3
- See Also:
ExtendedResponse ,
LdapContext.extendedOperation(javax.naming.ldap.ExtendedRequest)
getID
String getID()
- Retrieves the object identifier of the request.
- Returns:
- The non-null object identifier string representing the LDAP
ExtendedRequest.requestName component.
getEncodedValue
byte[] getEncodedValue()
- Retrieves the ASN.1 BER encoded value of the LDAP extended operation
request. Null is returned if the value is absent.
The result is the raw BER bytes including the tag and length of
the request value. It does not include the request OID.
This method is called by the service provider to get the bits to
put into the extended operation to be sent to the LDAP server.
- Returns:
- A possibly null byte array representing the ASN.1 BER encoded
contents of the LDAP ExtendedRequest.requestValue
component.
- Throws:
IllegalStateException - If the encoded value cannot be retrieved
because the request contains insufficient or invalid data/state.
createExtendedResponse
ExtendedResponse createExtendedResponse(String id,
byte[] berValue,
int offset,
int length)
throws NamingException
- Creates the response object that corresponds to this request.
After the service provider has sent the extended operation request
to the LDAP server, it will receive a response from the server.
If the operation failed, the provider will throw a NamingException.
If the operation succeeded, the provider will invoke this method
using the data that it got back in the response.
It is the job of this method to return a class that implements
the ExtendedResponse interface that is appropriate for the
extended operation request.
For example, a Start TLS extended request class would need to know
how to process a Start TLS extended response. It does this by creating
a class that implements ExtendedResponse.
- Parameters:
id - The possibly null object identifier of the response
control.berValue - The possibly null ASN.1 BER encoded value of the
response control.
This is the raw BER bytes including the tag and length of
the response value. It does not include the response OID.offset - The starting position in berValue of the bytes to use.length - The number of bytes in berValue to use.
- Returns:
- A non-null object.
- Throws:
NamingException - if cannot create extended response
due to an error.- See Also:
ExtendedResponse
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