Why does Spring LDAP's LdapTemplate not return title, department & company attributes?

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I'm using spring-ldap-core-2.3.1.RELEASE.jar over JDK 1.8 & Tomcat 8.0 to access AD information through LdapTemplate. The attributes such as title,department & company are not being returned by the ldapTemplate.search(..,.,..) method.

I'm using the following lines of code to search :-

LdapQuery ldapQuery = LdapQueryBuilder.query()
                                       .where("objectclass").is("user")
                                       .and("objectcategory").is("person")
                                       .and("cn").like(strWildcardText+"*");
ldapTemplate.search(ldapQuery, new ADUserAttributesMapper());

Following is the ADUserAttributesMapper class :-

public class ADUserAttributesMapper implements AttributesMapper<ADUserBean> {
    @Override
    public ADUserBean mapFromAttributes(Attributes attributes) throws NamingException {
        if(attributes==null) {
            return null;
        }

        adUserBean.setName((attributes.get("name")!=null) ? attributes.get("name").get().toString() : null);
        adUserBean.setCommonName((attributes.get("cn")!=null) ? attributes.get("cn").get().toString() : null);
        adUserBean.setDisplayName((attributes.get("displayname")!=null) ? attributes.get("displayname").get().toString() : null);
        adUserBean.setGivenName((attributes.get("givenname")!=null) ? attributes.get("givenname").get().toString() : null); // for FIRST NAME
        adUserBean.setMiddleName((attributes.get("initials")!=null) ? attributes.get("initials").get().toString() : null); // for MIDDLE NAME / INITIALS
        adUserBean.setLastName((attributes.get("sn")!=null) ? attributes.get("sn").get().toString() : null); // for LAST NAME
        adUserBean.setDepartment((attributes.get("department")!=null) ? attributes.get("department").get().toString() : null);
        adUserBean.setUserPrincipalName((attributes.get("userprincipalname")!=null) ? attributes.get("userprincipalname").get().toString() : null); // Logon Name
        adUserBean.setsAMAccountName((attributes.get("samaccountname")!=null) ? attributes.get("samaccountname").get().toString() : null); // Logon Name (pre-Windows 2000)
        adUserBean.setDistinguishedName((attributes.get("distinguishedname")!=null) ? attributes.get("distinguishedname").get().toString() : null);
        adUserBean.setMailID((attributes.get("mail")!=null) ? attributes.get("mail").get().toString() : null);
        adUserBean.setTitle((attributes.get("title")!=null) ? attributes.get("title").get().toString() : null); // Job Title
        adUserBean.setTelephoneNumber((attributes.get("telephonenumber")!=null) ? attributes.get("telephonenumber").get().toString() : null);
        adUserBean.setObjectCategory((attributes.get("objectcategory")!=null) ? attributes.get("objectcategory").get().toString() : null);

        return adUserBean;
    }
}

The title,department & company attributes belong to the Organization tab of the AD user properties as shown in the below image :- enter image description here

Also, from the General tab the initials(initials) attribute is not being picked up/listed by Spring-LDAP's ldapTemplate. The LdapQueryBuilder.query() object has access to attributes(...) method that takes a string array of attribute names that are to be fetched. But even after mentioning them there explicitly, values for attributes such as initials, title, department & company are not returned.

The LDAP Browser plugin within the Eclipse IDE lists the title,department & company properties under the Organization tab without a problem.

Even the com4j API returns the title, department & company attributes.

Is there any configuration that is limiting the attribute(s) listing or is it a limitation with Spring-LDAP API itself? Are these attributes not part of BasicAttributes? How to fetch these attributes through Spring-LDAP?

UPDATE (01-Aug-2017): The plain Java JNDI approach/code does NOT return department,company,title attributes (even with these attributes being explicitly mentioned in attributes string array), but surprisingly it does return the initials attribute value.

UPDATE (02-Aug-2017): Similar to @Pierre's suggestion (below) tried the following code using SearchControls object :-

String strFilter= "(&(objectclass=top)(cn=cgma*))";
String[] attrs = new String[] {"cn","givenName","sn","initials","title","department","company"};
long maxResults = 10; // for example 
SearchControls searchControls = new SearchControls();
searchControls.setSearchScope(SearchControls.SUBTREE_SCOPE);
searchControls.setReturningAttributes(attrs);
searchControls.setCountLimit(maxResults);
List<String> aLstOfADUsers = ldapTemplate.search("",strFilter,searchControls,new AttributesMapper<String>() 
                                                                     {
                                                                        public String mapFromAttributes(Attributes attrs) throws NamingException {
                                                                            try
                                                                            {
                                                                                System.out.println(attrs.toString());
                                                                                return attrs.get("cn").get().toString();
                                                                            }
                                                                            catch(Exception ex) {
                                                                                ex.printStackTrace();
                                                                                return null;
                                                                            }
                                                                        }
                                                                     });

return aLstOfADUsers;

Even this does not return the initials, title, company & department attribute values.

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