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Integration with a large LDAP directorry

tontonflingueur — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:32:50 GMT

Hello, I am currently implementing a Proof of Concept of an application integrating Activiti in a huge organization. Of course, LDAP integration is needed. I am aware that this topic has been discussed like thousand times on this forum and, in particular, I am aware of this link :http://developer4l

Re: Integration with a large LDAP directorry

sebastian_s — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 13:30:27 GMT

Hello Luke,

without having looked too deeply into this:

What prevents you from delegating the search calls etc. to your LDAP-server? I see you reason why you should be obligated to retrieve a list of all users from your LDAP which is indeed a bad idea. Translate the API-calls to LDAP-queries/searches and convert the result into the appropriate data objects.

Cheers
Sebastian

Re: Integration with a large LDAP directorry

roig — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 18:34:50 GMT

//TODO: get all users from your identity domain and convert them to List<User>

The "get all users" query could be called by the engine, but I am not sure it is called at all. For example, when you start the web-explorer, than is caches 25 users, not all the users (I dont really know your application architecture). Try to check the engine code and see if there is such a query - I believe you will not find it.

Re: Integration with a large LDAP directorry

tontonflingueur — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:48:52 GMT

Thank you for you answers.
I am going to investigate about that… As roig said, I am under the impression that neither the explorer nor the engine are using the method, but I am not sure yet.

Luke