LDAP: How to return more than 1000 results (java)

Question

I am using the LDAP SDK from this site: https://www.unboundid.com/products/ldap-sdk/ . I would like to make a search operation which returns a lot of entries.

Accord

Answer 1

It is pretty simple to implement a paged LDAP query using standard java, by using the adding a PagedResultsControl to the LdapContext, without using a third party API as per Neil's answer above.

Hashtable env = new Hashtable(11);
env
    .put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,
        "com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory");

/* Specify host and port to use for directory service */
env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL,
    "ldap://localhost:389/ou=People,o=JNDITutorial");

try {
  LdapContext ctx = new InitialLdapContext(env, null);

  // Activate paged results
  int pageSize = 5;
  byte[] cookie = null;
  ctx.setRequestControls(new Control[] { new PagedResultsControl(pageSize,
      Control.NONCRITICAL) });
  int total;

  do {
    /* perform the search */
    NamingEnumeration results = ctx.search("", "(objectclass=*)",
        new SearchControls());

    /* for each entry print out name + all attrs and values */
    while (results != null && results.hasMore()) {
      SearchResult entry = (SearchResult) results.next();
      System.out.println(entry.getName());
    }

    // Examine the paged results control response
    Control[] controls = ctx.getResponseControls();
    if (controls != null) {
      for (int i = 0; i < controls.length; i++) {
        if (controls[i] instanceof PagedResultsResponseControl) {
          PagedResultsResponseControl prrc = (PagedResultsResponseControl) controls[i];
          total = prrc.getResultSize();
          if (total != 0) {
            System.out.println("***************** END-OF-PAGE "
                + "(total : " + total + ") *****************\n");
          } else {
            System.out.println("***************** END-OF-PAGE "
                + "(total: unknown) ***************\n");
          }
          cookie = prrc.getCookie();
        }
      }
    } else {
      System.out.println("No controls were sent from the server");
    }
    // Re-activate paged results
    ctx.setRequestControls(new Control[] { new PagedResultsControl(
        pageSize, cookie, Control.CRITICAL) });

  } while (cookie != null);

  ctx.close();

Example copied from here.