topic Re: Convert AD's objectGUID to string in Talend Studio

Convert AD's objectGUID to string

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 16:31:15 GMT

Hi!
I need to convert an Active Directory's objectGUID (which is binary data) to a string (like "9698dc61-89f0-42b9-90c8-b54aee97d4ff").
How can I do it?

Re: Convert AD's objectGUID to string

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:12:22 GMT

Create a routine and add this method to it:

	
public static String toHexString(byte[] bin) {
     StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
     for (byte b : bin) {
	sb.append(Integer.toHexString(b));
     }
     return sb.toString();
}

Re: Convert AD's objectGUID to string

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:50:02 GMT

Thanks, jlolling!
The solution produce output like "61ffffffdcffffff98ffffff96fffffff0ffffff89ffffffb942ffffff90ffffffc8ffffffb54affffffeeffffff97ffffffd4ffffffff" (instead of 9698dc61-89f0-42b9-90c8-b54aee97d4ff), but you have pointed me to right way, so I'll try to use existing java examples to generate required string.
If anybody have the complete solution for generation GUID in AD style, post it here, please.

Re: Convert AD's objectGUID to string

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 19:38:09 GMT

Yes, the values you get are 4-byte digits. My code was made for 1-byte digits.