OpenSAML user discussion

[Tom Scavo <>]

The unit test

    public void testSAMLNameIdentifier() throws Exception {
        SAMLNameIdentifier nameid1 =
            SAMLNameIdentifier.getInstance(new FileInputStream(xmlpath));
        SAMLNameIdentifier nameid2 = (SAMLNameIdentifier) nameid1.clone();
        assertEquals("Name identifiers are not equal", nameid1, nameid2);
    }

fails with the following error message:

Name identifiers are not equal expected:<<NameIdentifier
xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:assertion"
Format="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:X509SubjectName">uid=By-Tor,ou=tobes,dc=hades,dc=com</NameIdentifier>>
but was:<<NameIdentifier xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:assertion"
Format="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:X509SubjectName">uid=By-Tor,ou=tobes,dc=hades,dc=com</NameIdentifier>>

If I replace the call to assertEquals with

        assertEquals("Serialized name identifiers are not equal",
                     nameid1.toString(), nameid2.toString());

the test succeeds.

Why does a straight 'equals' test fail?  Should SAMLNameIdentifier (or
its superclass SAMLObject) define an 'equals' method?

Thanks,
Tom