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I have an AIR application and would like to connect to an LDAP server to obtain some information for a particular user.
The url is something like ldap://ldapservername:389/
I would like to pass the userid/Name as the parameter and hope to retrieve the Full Name, Email address etc.
Can you please provide suggestions regarding implementing this? A Windows specific solution is also fine with me.
Adobe AIR does not have built-in support for LDAP. All online examples go through a server for LDAP integration.
Sample: Performing an LDAP query for role resolution
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/articles/perform_ldap_resolution.html
Short of using a server, you’re limited to two options, neither of which is good.
Completely re-implement the LDAP protocol in AIR. I think this is feasible, but is a huge undertaking. With Alchemy you theoretically could recompile an existing C library to work with AIR, but I don’t know how well that will work for this particular use-case. Plus it’s a research project, not production ready.
Embed a native application. With AIR 2.0 you can include a native application written in C or .NET or whatever and launch it to perform your LDAP calls. The only way to communicate with this other process is through stdin/stdout so it’s not easy to transfer complex/typed data, but it’s feasible.
AIR is not suited for all applications. If all of your application’s requirements can be fulfilled within AIR’s API, then it’s great. But if you need to do something not directly supported by AIR and don’t have a server component, you’re better off not using AIR.