/**
* Verifies the credential provided through LDAP server defined in config.properties
*
* @param credential specified username and password pairing
* @return string output the values of the attributes defined in attrIds
* @throws Exception authentication failed
*/
public String authenticateUser(final Credential credential) throws Exception {
try {
final Hashtable<String, String> env =
getEnvironmentTable(credential.getUsername(), credential.getPassword());
DirContext ctx = new InitialDirContext(env);
logger.info("authentication success");
ctx.close();
return ctx.toString();
} catch (Exception e) {
logger.error("Authentication failed: \n" + e.getMessage());
throw new Exception("Authentication failed: \n" + e.getMessage());
}
}
private void dirContextmethods() {
System.out.println("Inside dirContextmethods");
DirContext ctx = LDAPConstants.getLdapContext();
String baseDN = "OU=Staff,OU=Accounts,O=ibo,DC=adld,DC=ibo,DC=org";
DirContext schemaname;
try {
schemaname = ctx.getSchema(baseDN);
System.out.println("schemaname-" + schemaname.toString());
} catch (NamingException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}