org.springframework.ldap:spring-ldap-ldif-core

= Spring LDAP

Spring LDAP is a library to simplify LDAP programming in Java, built on the same principles as Spring Jdbc.

The LdapTemplate class encapsulates all the plumbing work involved in traditional LDAP programming, such as creating, looping through NamingEnumerations, handling Exceptions and cleaning up resources. This leaves the programmer to handle the important stuff - where to find data (DNs and Filters) and what to do with it (map to and from domain objects, bind, modify, unbind, etc.), in the same way that JdbcTemplate relieves the programmer of all but the actual SQL and how the data maps to the domain model.

In addition to this, Spring LDAP provides Exception translation from NamingExceptions to an unchecked exception hierarchy, as well as several utilities for working with filters, LDAP paths and attributes.

For detailed information on the project, please refer to the reference documentation and javadocs. See the changelog for detailed information on changes in the latest version.

== Code of Conduct This project adheres to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code. Please report unacceptable behavior to [e-mail].

== Downloading Artifacts See https://docs.spring.io/spring-ldap/reference/getting-spring-ldap.html[Getting Spring LDAP] for how to obtain Spring LDAP.

== Documentation

Be sure to read the https://docs.spring.io/spring-ldap/reference/[Spring LDAP Reference]. Extensive JavaDoc for the Spring LDAP code is also available in the https://docs.spring.io/spring-ldap/site/docs/current/api/[Spring LDAP API Documentation].

You may also want to check out https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ldap/releases[the change log for new features].

== Building from Source

Spring LDAP uses a https://gradle.org[Gradle]-based build system. In the instructions below, https://vimeo.com/34436402[`./gradlew`] is invoked from the root of the source tree and serves as a cross-platform, self-contained bootstrap mechanism for the build.

=== Prerequisites https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/quickstart/set-up-git[Git] and the https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads/#java17[JDK17 build].

Be sure that your JAVA_HOME environment variable points to the jdk-17 folder extracted from the JDK download.

=== Check out sources [indent=0]

git clone [e-mail]:spring-projects/spring-ldap.git

=== Install all spring-*.jar into your local Maven repository.

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./gradlew publishToMavenLocal

=== Compile and test; build all JARs, distribution zips, and docs

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./gradlew build

The reference docs are not currently included in the distribution zip. You can build the reference docs for this branch by running the following command:

./gradlew :spring-ldap-docs:antora

That command publishes the docs site to the _docs/build/site_ directory. The https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ldap/tree/docs-build[playbook branch] describes how to build the reference docs in detail.

Discover more commands with ./gradlew tasks.

== Getting Support Check out the https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/spring-ldap[Spring LDAP tags on Stack Overflow]. https://spring.io/support[Commercial support] is available too.

== Contributing https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-pull-requests/proposing-changes-to-your-work-with-pull-requests/creating-a-pull-request[Pull requests] are welcome; see the https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ldap/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.adoc[contributor guidelines] for details.

== License Spring LDAP is Open Source software released under the https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html[Apache 2.0 license].