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Hello,
We saw that property but it described the implemented class is called before importing data from Active Directory.

The development we have to do is one of those transforming them into a category of user fields and keep the phone number and address in the corresponding user fields .

To do this, we do not believe that we ldap.attrs.transformer.impl property can be useful in this case.

Thank you Chandan

Hi,

Yes you are right, in this property you can only transform the existing attribute of ldap which is coming from ldap and if it is not having the keys which liferay is using to get the value, so you can transform it as per liferay, and you attributes will be used to create the user. but your requirement is to update the user with the your listed attribute. Phone no etc....

if you see the liferay source code you can find the class com.liferay.portal.security.ldap.PortalLDAPImporterImpl and importLDAPUser() method which is responsible to import and create user from ldap. and again this method calling importUser() method to get user from ldap attributes and creates the user.

protected User importUser(
			long ldapServerId, long companyId, Attributes attributes,
			Properties userMappings, Properties userExpandoMappings,
			Properties contactMappings, Properties contactExpandoMappings,
			String password)
		throws Exception {
			-----------------------------------------------------
                       -------------------------------------------------------
	}

Again there is a class com.liferay.portal.security.ldap.DefaultLDAPToPortalConverter and method importLDAPUser() which is responsible for creating LDAPUser object from attributes which is lastly converted to the Liferay user object and store in liferay DB. if you see that method you will find it will read only predefined attributes.

@Override
	public LDAPUser importLDAPUser(
			long companyId, Attributes attributes, Properties userMappings,
			Properties userExpandoMappings, Properties contactMappings,
			Properties contactExpandoMappings, String password)
		throws Exception {
		----------------------------------------
               ---------------------------------------------------------
		return ldapUser;
	}

So you can do two things. If you can implement EXT then modify the class com.liferay.portal.security.ldap.PortalLDAPImporterImpl and importUser() method to read your defined attributes and set it to liferay user. but for ext you have to modify the classes and the spring beans class also in ldap-spring.xml to use your implementation.

	<bean id="com.liferay.portal.security.ldap.PortalLDAPImporterUtil" class="com.liferay.portal.security.ldap.PortalLDAPImporterUtil">
		<property name="portalLDAPImporter">
			<bean class="com.liferay.portal.security.ldap.PortalLDAPImporterImpl">
				<property name="LDAPToPortalConverter" ref="ldapToPortalConverter" />
			</bean>
		</property>
	</bean>

Another solution is if You are not comfortable with ext plugin.
1. you can create a service wrapper hook of user and override the add user and update user method so when the user will be added or modified you can update the user with your custom attribute value. Or
2. create a Model Listener hook for User so when the user get created or updated you can update the User with your custom attribute value.

In the implementation of any kind of hook listed above connect to the ldap and get the respective attributes and set to the user. but in this case you have to manage your own ldap context and everything. because you cannot use the liferay LDAP context i believe (I am not sure). or you can try to get Liferay LDAP context by using reflection. you can see here how to use reflection in liferay.

Thanks
Chandan