OpenSAML user discussion

[Chad La Joie <>]

This is now documented.

https://authdev.it.ohio-state.edu/twiki/bin/view/Shibboleth/OSTwoUsrManJavaLibIntro

Chad La Joie wrote:
> The developers will need to load the configuration files  within their 
> application but the configuration files themselves will be provided.
>
> Take a look at org.opensaml.common.SAMLObjectTestCaseConfigInitializer 
> in the test source.  You can see the static initializer (lines 60 - 88) 
> how the test cases loaded the configuration.  This is another area that 
> I have to do the documentation on which I'll be doing on Friday.
>
> Manuela Stanica wrote:
> > Chad La Joie schrieb:
> > > Make sure you have the latest XMLTooling and OpenSAML code.  My guess 
> > > is that your XMLTooling code is out of date.
> > Thank you, that did help :). Indeed I had forgotten to check out the 
> > XMLTooling code, as it compiled well and I supposed that it wouldn't 
> > be modified.
> > Now I no longer get any errors with the openSAML code either.
> >
> > As far as my implementation code is concerned, it is equivalent to the 
> > example that appears in the openSAML 2 user's manual. on the wiki 
> > page. However, where it still gets stuck is at the 
> > unmarshallerFactory.getUnmarshaller(metadataRoot) method, as it 
> > eventually tries to fetch the appropriate unmarshaller from the 
> > 'unmarshallers' Map, which is empty...
> > Is this map going to be populated with the unmarshaller entities 
> > corresponding to SAML 2 metadata types? Or are the developers supposed 
> > to do this manually by means of the registerUnmarshaller(QName key, 
> > Unmarshaller unmarshaller) method in UnmarshallerFactory? (this would 
> > seem like a lot of work...)
> >
> > After having manually registered the EntityDescriptorUnmarshaller in 
> > this way, the unmarshall() method encountered the same problem while 
> > trying to find the EntityDescriptorBuilder from the 'builders' Map, 
> > which is empty as well. I also inserted code to register this builder, 
> > but then of course the same happens while trying to unmarshall all the 
> > child elements of the given document.
> > Should all these unmarshallers and builders really be registered 
> > manually or are they to be found in the corresponding maps at some point?
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your help.
> >
> > (And thank you too Tom, I will take a look at the GridShib code you 
> > mentioned to see if there is anything that could apply to the project 
> > I work on (eduGAIN AAI infrastructure in GEANT2)).
> >
> > Manuela

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