Attributes in Detail

One of the three following conditions will be true for an attribute in an entry: the attribute is present but has no value (actually a null value), the attribute is not present, or the attribute is present and has one or more values:

  1. Attribute present in entry with no value. The following abbreviated LDIF record shows that this entry has the telephoneNumber attribute, but that the attribute has no value. 

    								dn: uid=andy1, ou=People, o=airius.com
     ou: People
     cn: Andy Jones
     ...
								telephoneNumber:

    This is a valid condition, and when prettyPrint executes, it does not print the attribute in the listing. Code that detects this condition sets the boolean flag hasVals inside the enumeration loop:

     while ( enumVals.hasMoreElements() ) { ...

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