jsdsi.ldap
Class LDAPOperations

java.lang.Object
  jsdsi.ldap.LDAPAttributes
      jsdsi.ldap.LDAPOp
          jsdsi.ldap.LDAPOperations

public class LDAPOperations

extends jsdsi.ldap.LDAPOp

LDAP operations. Insert, retrieve and delete sdsi certificates from a LDAP server

Version:

$Revision: 1.7 $ $Date: 2004/11/08 12:08:08 $

Author:

Lu�s Pedro, Sean Radford

Constructor Summary

LDAPOperations(LDAPParameters params)
Create a new instance of LDAPOperations

Method Summary

boolean	deleteAllCertificates() Delete all based SPKI certificates from an LDAP server - CAUTION: The certificates no longer be available.
boolean	deleteCertificate(java.lang.String cn) Delete a sdsi certificate from an LDAP server with a specified cn
LDAPParameters	getParameters() Ldap parameters used to perform operations
Certificate	retrieveCertificate(java.lang.String cn) Retrieves a sdsi certificate from an LDAP server with a specified cn
void	storeCertificate(java.lang.String cn, Certificate certificate) Store a sdsi certificate into an LDAP server with a specified cn, default hash algorithm "md5" is assumed
void	storeCertificate(java.lang.String cn, Certificate certificate, java.lang.String hashAlg) Store a sdsi certificate into an LDAP server with a specified cn and a hash algorithm
void	toFile(java.lang.String filename) Writes all based SPKI certificates on a LDAP server to a file.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

LDAPOperations

public LDAPOperations(LDAPParameters params)

Create a new instance of LDAPOperations

Parameters:

params - ldap parameters

Method Detail

deleteAllCertificates

public boolean deleteAllCertificates()
                              throws LDAPSearchException

Delete all based SPKI certificates from an LDAP server - CAUTION: The certificates no longer be available.

Returns:

true if the operation was executed with sucess

Throws:

LDAPSearchException - custom error for an empty search, not ldap server error

deleteCertificate

public boolean deleteCertificate(java.lang.String cn)

Delete a sdsi certificate from an LDAP server with a specified cn

Parameters:

cn - cn ldap schema attribute that represents certificate name

Returns:

true if the operation was executed with sucess

retrieveCertificate

public Certificate retrieveCertificate(java.lang.String cn)

Retrieves a sdsi certificate from an LDAP server with a specified cn

Parameters:

cn - cn ldap schema attribute that represents certificate name

Returns:

certificate sdsi certificate

See Also:

Certificate.fromSequence(Sequence)

storeCertificate

public void storeCertificate(java.lang.String cn,
                             Certificate certificate)

Store a sdsi certificate into an LDAP server with a specified cn, default hash algorithm "md5" is assumed

Parameters:

cn - cn ldap schema attribute that represents certificate name

certificate - sdsi certificate

storeCertificate

public void storeCertificate(java.lang.String cn,
                             Certificate certificate,
                             java.lang.String hashAlg)

Store a sdsi certificate into an LDAP server with a specified cn and a hash algorithm

Parameters:

cn - cn ldap schema attribute that represents certificate name

certificate - sdsi certificate

hashAlg - hash algorithm to use with the public keys, "md5" or "sha1"

See Also:

Certificate.getEncoded()

toFile

public void toFile(java.lang.String filename)

Writes all based SPKI certificates on a LDAP server to a file. This file MUST not be used to store certificates on the ldap server using ldap command line commands

Parameters:

filename - filename to write the certificates

getParameters

public LDAPParameters getParameters()

Ldap parameters used to perform operations

Returns:

ldap parameters