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Reimagining LDAP for Node.js

Overview

ldapjs is a pure JavaScript, from-scratch framework for implementing LDAP clients and servers in Node.js. It is intended for developers used to interacting with HTTP services in node and restify.

var ldap = require('ldapjs');

var server = ldap.createServer();

server.search('o=example', function(req, res, next) {
  var obj = {
    dn: req.dn.toString(),
    attributes: {
      objectclass: ['organization', 'top'],
      o: 'example'
    }
  };

  if (req.filter.matches(obj.attributes))
    res.send(obj);

  res.end();
});

server.listen(1389, function() {
  console.log('LDAP server listening at %s', server.url);
});

Try hitting that with:

$ ldapsearch -H ldap://localhost:1389 -x -b o=example objectclass=*

Features

ldapjs implements most of the common operations in the LDAP v3 RFC(s), for both client and server. It is 100% wire-compatible with the LDAP protocol itself, and is interoperable with OpenLDAP and any other LDAPv3-compliant implementation. ldapjs gives you a powerful routing and "intercepting filter" pattern for implementing server(s). It is intended that you can build LDAP over anything you want, not just traditional databases.

Getting started

$ npm install ldapjs

If you're new to LDAP, check out the guide. Otherwise, the API documentation is:

Section	Content
Server API	Reference for implementing LDAP servers.
Client API	Reference for implementing LDAP clients.
DN API	API reference for the DN class.
Filter API	API reference for LDAP search filters.
Error API	Listing of all ldapjs Error objects.
Examples	Collection of sample/getting started code.

More information

License:MIT
Code: mcavage/node-ldapjs
node.js version: >=0.8
Twitter: @pfmooney

What's not in the box?

Since most developers and system(s) adminstrators struggle with some of the esoteric features of LDAP, not all features in LDAP are implemented here. Specifically:

LDIF
Aliases
Attributes by OID
Extensible matching

There are a few others, but those are the "big" ones.

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