I'm using CAS Attributes in our D7 build to map names, addresses, job titles, etc, into Drupal. In LDAP, the street address ([cas:ldap:registeredaddress] token) is stored in this format, with a $ separating the street and city:

Streetname$City, State 00000-0000

With no way to get rid of that $, I tried adding commas between the individual tokens like this:

[cas:ldap:street], [cas:ldap:l], [cas:ldap:st] [cas:ldap:postalcode]

This works, except some user accounts have empty LDAP tokens. When these users log in, the address field gets populated with:

, ,

What's the easiest way to transform the [cas:ldap:registeredaddress] token, or the address field and its individual tokens? I'm open to adding an override to a custom module if necessary. Thanks.

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vinmassaro commented
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olarin commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

Since this is sort of a special case of processing the formatting of data coming in from your CAS server, I think it probably does belong in a custom module as you suggested. As I see it, you have two major options - munge the data on the way in, or address the issue on display.

If you want to munge it on the way in, you can just use [cas:ldap:registeredaddress] and write a hook_tokens_alter to edit it.

If you don't want to muck with the token process, then depending on how you are going to use / display the data, you could just go ahead and store the street, city, state and zip separately or in a special field collection or something, and write some custom code to affect how they get displayed / used later - perhaps a field template in your theme for instance.

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vinmassaro commented

Thanks, I ended up using hook_tokens_alter to replace the $ with a comma:

function my_module_tokens_alter(&$replacements, $context){
  if ($context['type'] == 'cas') {
    if (isset($replacements['[cas:ldap:registeredAddress]'])) {
      $replacements['[cas:ldap:registeredAddress]'] = str_replace('$', ', ', $replacements['[cas:ldap:registeredAddress]']);
    }
  }
}
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