I am trying to use the search method of Ldap.js in my node.js code. Here is my code for the client side. It adds successfully a user, but searching for the newly added user does not yield any results. (The ldap server is running in a docker container from https://github.com/osixia/docker-openldap)
var ldap = require("ldapjs");
var assert = require("assert");
var client = ldap.createClient({
url: "ldap://localhost:389",
});
client.bind("cn=admin,dc=example,dc=org", "admin", function (err) {
assert.ifError(err);
let newUser = {
cn: "userId7",
userPassword: "password",
objectClass: "person",
sn: "efub",
};
// Here i successfully add this user "userId7"
client.add(
"cn=userId7,dc=example,dc=org",
newUser,
(err, response) => {
if (err) return console.log(err);
return response;
}
);
var options = {
filter: "(objectClass=*)",
scope: "sub",
};
// Now the search, it runs without error, but does never receive a searchEntry
client.search(
"cn=userId7,dc=example,dc=org",
options,
function (error, search) {
console.log("Searching.....");
client.on("searchEntry", function (entry) {
console.log("I found a result in searchEntry");
});
client.on("error", function (error) {
console.error("error: " + error.message);
});
client.unbind(function (error) {
if (error) {
console.log(error.message);
} else {
console.log("client disconnected");
}
});
}
);
});
client.on('error', function (err) {
if (err.syscall == "connect") {
console.log(err);
}
});
Also, if it helps, this is how the newly added user looks like when i display all users from ldap by running docker exec my-openldap-container ldapsearch -x -H ldap://localhost:389 -b dc=example,dc=org -D "cn=admin,dc=example,dc=org" -w admin
# userId7, example.org
dn: cn=userId7,dc=example,dc=org
cn: userId7
userPassword:: cGFzc3dvcmQ=
objectClass: person
sn: efub
Update: I can successfully search for the user "userId7" with the shell command: docker exec ldap-service ldapsearch -LLL -x -D "cn=admin,dc=example,dc=org" -w "admin" -b "cn=userId7,dc=example,dc=org" "(objectclass=*)"
. How can i make ldapJS also run this search successfully?
Update 2: I can also successfully search by using the frontend "phpLDAPadmin" as seen in the screenshots below:
So i solved it. The correct
client.search
code is:Inside
function (error, res) {
I listened for the events viaclient.on("searchEntry"
, instead ofres.on("searchEntry"
, therefore missing the events from the search results. The root cause was a classic copy and paste error and changing the variable while misunderstanding the origin of the event.