userSearch Function and LDAP

RE: userSearch Function and LDAP

claudiob — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 20:20:05 GMT

This was the final resolution in case anyone is interested... split( clean(substitute( substitute( extract( user(ri!user,"customField1"), "CN=", ",OU=" ), "\\,", ""),"'","")), " ") ...the second substitute removes apostrophe's like O'dell. The clean() removes any extra white space. I'm sure there will be other special cases to remove but this works for now. Thanks for the help.

RE: userSearch Function and LDAP

sikhivahans — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 09:24:51 GMT

@claudiob No worries, ", " worked for me with the string you have mentioned in the post. Good to hear that it's resolved.

RE: userSearch Function and LDAP

claudiob — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 20:29:35 GMT

thanks sikhivahan, interesting catch. I don't think I've experienced the same issue in other languages. Splitting on ", " did not work, but substituting the " " with "" actually did. Thanks for the redirection.

RE: userSearch Function and LDAP

sikhivahans — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 10:35:47 GMT

If the above is correct, then you may slightly change the way(refer the code below) you split provided if it's a standard pattern across all the values:

load(
local!name: split(
substitute(
extract(
"CN=Jetson\\, George,OU=Users,OU=Metropolis,DC=SpacelySprockets,DC=local ",
"CN=",
",OU="
),
"\\",
""
),
", "
/*Use the comma with space as a separator(rather than comma) in the split(), as there is a space after the comma, that is prior to firstName*/
),
usersearch(
{
"lastName",
"firstName"
},
{
1,
1
},
local!name
)
)

RE: userSearch Function and LDAP

sikhivahans — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 10:15:20 GMT

@claudiob As far as my observation is considered, there is an additional space being appended to firstName in the LDAP search string which might be the root cause of issue. Please find attached the picture and I believe it might give you leads. Also if you can debug by using the wherecontains() on the output of split() and the actual array of lastName, firstName (i.e., {"Jetson","George"}) you can see that firstName won't appear in search results.

RE: userSearch Function and LDAP

claudiob — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 06:01:04 GMT

...d(local!name:split( substitute( extract(user(ri!user,"customField1"),"CN=",",OU="),"\\",""),","),usersearch({"lastName","firstName"},{1,1}, local!name))substituting local!name with the split code. attempting conversions of each individual element of the array and putting into a string. etc. Does anyone know the trick to programmatically use userSearch to get a user from the system?