Class LdapEntry

Represents a single entry in a directory, consisting of a distinguished name (DN) and zero or more attributes. An instance of LdapEntry is created in order to add an entry to a directory, and instances of LdapEntry are returned on a search by enumerating an LdapSearchResults.

Inheritance

Object

LdapEntry

Inherited Members

Object.ToString()

Object.Equals(Object)

Object.Equals(Object, Object)

Object.ReferenceEquals(Object, Object)

Object.GetHashCode()

Object.GetType()

Object.MemberwiseClone()

Namespace: Swan.Ldap

Syntax

public class LdapEntry

Constructors

LdapEntry(String, LdapAttributeSet)

Initializes a new instance of the LdapEntry class. Constructs a new entry with the specified distinguished name and set of attributes.

Declaration

public LdapEntry(string dn = null, LdapAttributeSet attrs = null)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
String	dn	The distinguished name of the new entry. The value is not validated. An invalid distinguished name will cause operations using this entry to fail.
LdapAttributeSet	attrs	The initial set of attributes assigned to the entry.

Properties

DN

Returns the distinguished name of the entry.

Declaration

public string DN { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
String	The dn.

Methods

GetAttribute(String)

Returns the attributes matching the specified attrName.

Declaration

public LdapAttribute GetAttribute(string attrName)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
String	attrName	The name of the attribute or attributes to return.

Returns

Type	Description
LdapAttribute	The attribute matching the name.

GetAttributeSet()

Returns the attribute set of the entry. All base and subtype variants of all attributes are returned. The LdapAttributeSet returned may be empty if there are no attributes in the entry.

Declaration

public LdapAttributeSet GetAttributeSet()

Returns

Type	Description
LdapAttributeSet	The attribute set of the entry.

GetAttributeSet(String)

Returns an attribute set from the entry, consisting of only those attributes matching the specified subtypes. The getAttributeSet method can be used to extract only a particular language variant subtype of each attribute, if it exists. The "subtype" may be, for example, "lang-ja", "binary", or "lang-ja;phonetic". If more than one subtype is specified, separated with a semicolon, only those attributes with all of the named subtypes will be returned. The LdapAttributeSet returned may be empty if there are no matching attributes in the entry.

Declaration

public LdapAttributeSet GetAttributeSet(string subtype)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
String	subtype	One or more subtype specification(s), separated with semicolons. The "lang-ja" and "lang-en;phonetic" are valid subtype specifications.

Returns

Type	Description
LdapAttributeSet	An attribute set from the entry with the attributes that match the specified subtypes or an empty set if no attributes match.

See Also

LdapAttribute

LdapAttributeSet

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