Browsing attributes of ldap entries never finds "cn"

Question

Hello,
newbie here testing how JNDI interacts with a Novell NDS eDirectory LDAP server...
I've created a few test users in the directory, all with "cn" attributes. However, when I run a my JNDI test program, it always finds all the attributes except "cn". I was wondering if anyone ran into this problem before or if it may be some sort of ldap server misconfiguration.
I've included the source code to show how it's working...
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import java.util.Hashtable;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import javax.naming.*;
import javax.naming.directory.*;
public class GetAttributes {
          public static String INITCTX = "com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory";
          public static String MY_SERVICE = "ldap://192.168.0.208:389";
          public static String ENTRYDN = "cn=testcn,ou=TESTOU,o=TESTO";
          public static void main (String[] args) {
               try {
                    Hashtable env = new Hashtable(5, 0.75f);
                    env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, INITCTX);
                    /* Specify host and port to use for directory service */
                    env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, MY_SERVICE);
                    /* get a handle to an Initial DirContext */
                    DirContext ctx = new InitialDirContext(env);
                    BasicAttributes basicAttributes = (BasicAttributes) ctx.getAttributes(ENTRYDN, null);
                    System.out.println(basicAttributes.size());
                    NamingEnumeration ne = basicAttributes.getAll();
                    BasicAttribute basicAttribute = null;
                    while (ne.hasMore()) {
                         basicAttribute = (BasicAttribute) ne.next();
                         System.out.println(basicAttribute.toString());
               catch (Exception e) {
                    System.out.println(e.toString());
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2
objectClass: person, ndsLoginProperties, top
sn: LastNameOfTest
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Thanks.

Answer 1

If you use SearchControls you can specify the attributes you get back. Maybe you should try explicitly returning the cn to see if the entries are being searched correctly.
SearchControls ctls = new SearchControls();
String[] attrs = { "cn" };
ctls.setReturningAttributes(attrs);Then pass the controls when you search:
results = context.search("",filter,ctls);
//where filter is a string that has your search criteria--Nicole