JNDI ldap search problems

Does anyone have any idea why a search using DirContents.search() would return duplicate records where no duplicates exist. Code below.

public Vector getListByName(String inName)
{
vecList = new Vector();
env= new Hashtable();
env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory");
env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "ldap://lftdev01:389");
env.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, "cn=admin,dc=rah,dc=sa,dc=gov,dc=au");
env.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, "secret");


try {
// Create the initial context
DirContext ctx = new InitialDirContext(env);
Attributes matchAttrs = new BasicAttributes(true); // ignore attribute name case
matchAttrs.put(new BasicAttribute("cn", inName));
String[] attrIDs = {"cn", "uid",};
SearchControls ctls = new SearchControls();
NamingEnumeration answer = ctx.search("ou=staff,dc=rah,dc=sa,dc=gov,dc=au", "cn=*"+inName+"*",ctls);
Vector tmpuid = new Vector();
Vector tmpcn = new Vector();
Attribute attr;
while (answer.hasMore())
{
SearchResult sr = (SearchResult)answer.next();
Attributes att = sr.getAttributes();
for (NamingEnumeration ae = att.getAll(); ae.hasMore()
{
attr = (Attribute)ae.next();
if(attr.getID().equals("uid"))
{
for (NamingEnumeration e = attr.getAll(); e.hasMore(); tmpuid.addElement(String.valueOf(e.next())));
}
else
if(attr.getID().equals("cn"))
{
for (NamingEnumeration e = attr.getAll(); e.hasMore(); tmpcn.addElement(String.valueOf(e.next())));
}

}
int i = 0;
while(i < tmpuid.size())
{
vecList.addElement(tmpuid.elementAt(i)+"|"+tmpcn.elementAt(i));
i++;
}
}

// Close the context when we're done
ctx.close();
} catch (NamingException e) {System.out.println("List failed: " + e);}
return vecList;
}

Thanks in advance,
Jeremy

I'd assume it has something to do with your while (which language is this? java?)
while (answer.hasMore())
try it outside the loop

Yep its java, I dont think the loop is the problem though, the duplicates appear throughout the resultset ie 1,2,3,1,4,5,1,2.
There are no duplicate entries in the ldap however.
Very Strange.

This one has me puzzled.


Think ill move on and come back to it later on in the project.

Opps, i feel like such a tool, you were right.
Staring at a computer screen 12 hours a day mst be taking its toll.

Thanks Viper

glad I could help