OpenSAML user discussion

[Tom Scavo <>]

On 1/13/06, Scott Cantor 
<>
 wrote:
>
> I don't know whether Chad had planned to change this behavior or not. I'd
> have to see how it would work in the general case before I would change my
> mind.

Here's a possible implementation of equals in SAMLNameIdentifier:

    public boolean equals(Object o) {
        if (!( o instanceof SAMLNameIdentifier)) {return false;}
        if (XML.isEmpty(this.format)) {return this.foo().equals(o);}
        SAMLNameIdentifier nameid = (SAMLNameIdentifier) o;
        if (XML.isEmpty(nameid.getFormat())) {return equals(nameid.foo());}
        return nameid.getName().equals(this.name) &&
               nameid.getNameQualifier().equals(this.nameQualifier) &&
               nameid.getFormat().equals(this.format);
    }

    public SAMLNameIdentifier foo() {
        String format = this.format;
        if (XML.isEmpty(format)) {format = FORMAT_UNSPECIFIED;}
        SAMLNameIdentifier nameid;
        try {
            nameid = SAMLNameIdentifier.getInstance(format);
        } catch (SAMLException e) {
            nameid = new SAMLNameIdentifier();
            nameid.setFormat(format);
        }
        nameid.setName(this.name);
        nameid.setNameQualifier(this.nameQualifier);
        return nameid;
    }

I don't know what to call foo.  It's a canonicalizer for
NameIdentifiers (of sorts) but I don't want to use that word in this
context.

Note that this works regardless of whether or not FORMAT_UNSPECIFIED
is registered.  If so, then presumably the handler would likewise call
foo() on its argument.

Tom