Question

I am trying to pull an LDAP “jpegPhoto” attribute from an openLDAP server using a iOS openLDAP framework. The framework pulls the data as a dictionary of NSStrings.

I need to convert the NSString of “jpegPhoto” (which also appears to be base64 encoded) to UIImage, with the end result being that I display the jpegPhoto as the user’s image when they login.

More Info:

-(NSDictionary *)doQuery:(NSString *)query:(NSArray *)attrsToReturn {
    ...
    while(attribute){
        if ((vals = ldap_get_values_len(ld, entry, attribute))){
            for(int i = 0; vals[i]; i++){
                //Uncomment if you want to see all the values.
                //NSLog(@"%s: %s", attribute, vals[i]->bv_val);
                if ([resultSet objectForKey:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%s",attribute]] == nil){
                    [resultSet setObject:[NSArray arrayWithObject:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%s",vals[i]->bv_val]] forKey:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%s",attribute]];
                }else{
                    NSMutableArray *array = [[resultSet objectForKey:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%s",attribute]] mutableCopy];
                    [array addObject:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%s",vals[i]->bv_val]];
                    [resultSet setObject:array forKey:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%s",attribute]];
                }
            }
            ldap_value_free_len(vals);
        };
        ldap_memfree(attribute);
        attribute = ldap_next_attribute(ld, entry, ber);
    };
    ...
}

-(UIIMage *)getPhoto{
    NSString *query = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"(uid=%@)",self.bindUsername];
    NSArray *attrsToReturn = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"cn",@"jpegPhoto", nil];
    NSDictionary *rs = [self doQuery:query:attrsToReturn];
    NSString *photoString = [[rs objectForKey:@"jpegPhoto"] objectAtIndex:0];
    NSLog(@"The photoString is: %i %@",[photoString length],@"characters long"); //returns 4
    NSData *photoData = [NSData dataWithBase64EncodedString:photoString];
    UIImage *userPhoto = [UIImage imageWithData:photoData];
    return userPhoto;
}

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];
    self.studentNameLabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Hi %@!",[self.ldap getFullName]];
    self.studentPhotoImage.image = [self.ldap getPhoto];
    [self checkForProctor];
}

Answer 1

Try this code

NSData *dataObj = [NSData dataWithBase64EncodedString:beforeStringImage];
UIImage *beforeImage = [UIImage imageWithData:dataObj];

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