Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

1 Understanding Basic Oracle Unified Directory Plug-in Concepts

• 1.1 Determining Whether You Should Implement an OUD Plug-In
• 1.2 OUD Plug-Ins and OUD Workflows
• 1.3 OUD Plug-In Implementation Points
• 1.4 About Oracle Unified Directory Plug-Ins

2 Building and Deploying an OUD Plug-In

• 2.1 Before You Begin
• 2.2 To Deploy a Plug-In to an OUD Instance

3 Using the OUD Plug-In API Reference

• 3.1 OUD Plug-In Configuration
  • 3.1.1 Storing OUD Plug-In Configuration
  • 3.1.2 Retrieving OUD Plug-In Configuration
  • 3.1.3 Creating an Automated Parser for Plug-In Properties
  • 3.1.4 Making Dynamic OUD Plug-In Configuration Changes
  • 3.1.5 Validating Plug-In Configuration
• 3.2 Request Handling
  • 3.2.1 Modifying Requests
  • 3.2.2 Wrapping Requests
  • 3.2.3 Forwarding Requests
  • 3.2.4 Returning Results
• 3.3 Response Handling
• 3.4 Results Handling
  • 3.4.1 Ignoring Results
  • 3.4.2 Intercepting Search Failures
  • 3.4.3 Counting Returned Entries
• 3.5 Filter Processing
• 3.6 Internal Operations
  • 3.6.1 Creating Internal Requests
  • 3.6.2 Invoking Internal Requests
    • 3.6.2.1 Mode 1
    • 3.6.2.2 Mode 2
• 3.7 Error Handling
• 3.8 Logging and Debugging
  • 3.8.1 To Debug the Plug-In When Servicing a Client Request
  • 3.8.2 To Debug Plug-In Initialization