LDAP Translator - Teiid 8.3

The LDAP translator, known by the type name ldap , exposes an LDAP directory tree relationally with pushdown support for filtering via criteria. This is typically coupled with the LDAP resource adapter.

Execution Properties

Name	Description	Default
SearchDerfaultBaseDN	Default Base DN for LDAP Searches	null
SearchDefaultScope	Default Scope for LDAP Searches. Can be one of SUBTREE_SCOPE, OBJECT_SCOPE, ONELEVEL_SCOPE.	ONELEVEL_SCOPE
RestrictToObjectClass	Restrict Searches to objectClass named in the Name field for a table	false
UsePagination	Use a PagedResultsControl to page through large results. This is not supported by all directory servers.	false
ExceptionOnSizeLimitExceeded	Set to true to throw an exception when a SizeLimitExceededException is received and a LIMIT is not properly enforced.	false

There are no import settings for the ldap translator; it also does not provide metadata.

Metadata Directives

String columns with a default value of "multivalued-concat" will concatinate all attribute values together in alphabetical order using a ? delimiter. If a multivalued attribute does not have a default value of "multivalued-concat", then any value may be returned.

Native Queries

LDAP procedures may optionally have native queries associated with them - see Parameterizable Native Queries. The operation prefix (select;, insert;, update;, delete; - see the native procedure logic below for more) must be present in the native-query, but it will not be issued as part of the query to the source.

Example DDL for an LDAP native procedure

CREATE FOREIGN PROCEDURE proc (arg1 integer, arg2 string) OPTIONS ("teiid_rel:native-query" 'search;context-name=corporate;filter=(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(!cn=$2));count-limit=5;timeout=$1;search-scope=ONELEVEL_SCOPE;attributes=uid,cn') returns (col1 string, col2 string);

Parameter values have reserved characters escaped, but are otherwise directly substituted into the query.

Native Procedure

This feature is turned off by default because of the security risk this exposes to execute any command against the source. To enable this feature, override the translator property called "SupportsNativeQueries" to true. Look for Override Execution Properties above.

LDAP translator provides a procedure with name native that gives ability to execute any ad-hoc native LDAP queries directly against the source without any Teiid parsing or resolving. The metadata of this procedure's execution results are not known to the Teiid, and they are returned as object array. User can use ARRAYTABLE construct to build tabular output for consumption by client applications. Since there is no known direct query language for LDAP, Teiid exposes this procedure with a simple query structure as below

Search

Search Example

SELECT x.* FROM (call pm1.native('search;context-name=corporate;filter=(objectClass=*);count-limit=5;timeout=6;search-scope=ONELEVEL_SCOPE;attributes=uid,cn')) w,
 ARRAYTABLE(w.tuple COLUMNS "uid" string , "cn" string) AS x

from the above code, the " search " keyword followed by below properties. Each property must be delimited by semi-colon (;) If a property contains a semi-colon (;), it should be escaped by another semi-colon - see also Parameterizable Native Queries and the native-query procedure example above.

Name	Description	Required
context-name	LDAP Context name	Yes
filter	query to filter the records in the context	No
count-limit	limit the number of results. same as using LIMIT	No
timeout	Time out the query if not finished in given milliseconds	No
search-scope	LDAP search scope, one of SUBTREE_SCOPE, OBJECT_SCOPE, ONELEVEL_SCOPE	No
attributes	attributes to retrieve	Yes

Delete

Delete Example

SELECT x.* FROM (call pm1.native('delete;uid=doe,ou=people,o=teiid.org')) w,
 ARRAYTABLE(w.tuple COLUMNS "updatecount" integer) AS x

form the above code, the " delete " keyword followed the "DN" string. All the string contents after the "delete;" used as DN.

Create or Update

Create Example

SELECT x.* FROM
 (call pm1.native('create;uid=doe,ou=people,o=teiid.org;attributes=one,two,three', 'one', 2, 3.0)) w,
 ARRAYTABLE(w.tuple COLUMNS "update_count" integer) AS x

form the above code, the " create " keyword followed the "DN" string. All the string contents after the "create;" is used as DN. It also takes one property called "attributes" which is comma separated list of attributes. The values for each attribute is specified as separate argument to the "native" procedure.

Update is similar to create

Update Example

SELECT x.* FROM
 (call pm1.native('update;uid=doe,ou=people,o=teiid.org;attributes=one,two,three', 'one', 2, 3.0)) w,
 ARRAYTABLE(w.tuple COLUMNS "update_count" integer) AS x

By default the name of the procedure that executes the queries directly is called native , however than can be set via an override execution property in the vdb.xml file.

JCA Resource Adapter

The resource adapter for this translator provided through "LDAP Data Source", Refer to Admin Guide for configuration.