OpenSAML user discussion

[Manuela Stanica <>]

Hi Chad,
> Given the error you've encountered I'd guess that the attribute value 
> you're trying to read does not have a schema instance type attribute 
> and that AttributeValue isn't registered or is specifically registered 
> to use the ElementProxy element.
The metadata document example that I'm using for testing is taken out of 
the OASIS specification for SAML 2 metadata, here is the concerned section:
<saml:Attribute
NameFormat="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:attrname-format:uri"
Name="urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.5923.1.1.1.1"
FriendlyName="eduPersonAffiliation">
<saml:AttributeValue>member</saml:AttributeValue>
<saml:AttributeValue>student</saml:AttributeValue>
<saml:AttributeValue>faculty</saml:AttributeValue>
<saml:AttributeValue>employee</saml:AttributeValue>
<saml:AttributeValue>staff</saml:AttributeValue>
</saml:Attribute>

Could you please give me a hint on how to read these values?

Thanks,
Manuela



> Manuela Stanica wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I noticed that the openSAML2 and XMLTooling code compiles again, great!
> > I still have a question though concerning AttributeValues. I haven't 
> > found out yet how I can read the value of an <AttributeValue>. It 
> > looks like there have been some changes made around this, are they 
> > documented somewhere? I've looked into the code and found an example 
> > of how I could read this value and tried to do the same in my code, 
> > but it doesn't seem to work.
> > I have something like:
> >                    List<XMLObject> attrValList = 
> > idpDescr.getAttributes().get(i).getAttributeValues();
> >                    for(int n=0; n<attrValList.size(); n++){
> >                        XSString value = (XSString) attrValList.get(n);
> >                        String val = value.getValue();
> >                         .............................
> >                    }
> > Here I get a  java.lang.ClassCastException: 
> > org.opensaml.xml.ElementProxy  when trying to do the casting to 
> > XSString.
> > So how can I get to my AttributeValues..?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Manuela


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