OpenSAML user discussion

[Chad La Joie <>]

One minor note for you Paul, you can use the 
XMLHelper.nodeToString(Node) method or writeNode(Node,Writer) to use the 
DOM LS functions to write nodes to strings or writers respectively.

Thank you for the example code.

Paul Hethmon wrote:
> A couple of things here:
>
> 1. Make sure you followed the steps to put the endorsed versions of
> Xalan and Xerces in place.
> 2. What you do next depends on which iteration of the library you are
> using. I'm using the latest revision from svn (at least updated in the
> last week) and here's some sample code which should compile and run:
>
> // -----
>     org.opensaml.DefaultBootstrap.bootstrap();
>
>     // Use the OpenSAML Configuration singleton to get a builder factory
> object
>     XMLObjectBuilderFactory builderFactory =
> org.opensaml.Configuration.getBuilderFactory();
>     // First get a builder for AuthnRequest
>     AuthnRequestBuilder arb = (AuthnRequestBuilder)
> builderFactory.getBuilder(AuthnRequest.DEFAULT_ELEMENT_NAME);
>     // And one for Issuer
>     IssuerBuilder ib = (IssuerBuilder)
> builderFactory.getBuilder(Issuer.DEFAULT_ELEMENT_NAME);
>     // And one for Subject
>     SubjectBuilder sb = (SubjectBuilder)
> builderFactory.getBuilder(Subject.DEFAULT_ELEMENT_NAME);
>     // build an AuthnRequest object
>     AuthnRequestImpl auth = (AuthnRequestImpl) arb.buildObject();
>     // Build the Issuer object
>     Issuer newIssuer = ib.buildObject();
>     newIssuer.setValue("MyIssuer");
>     auth.setIssuer(newIssuer);
>     auth.setProviderName("MyProviderName");
>     auth.setAssertionConsumerServiceURL("http://www.example.com";);
>     auth.setDestination("http://www.example.com";);
>     //auth.setAssertionConsumerServiceIndex(0);
>     //auth.setAttributeConsumingServiceIndex(0);
>     auth.setID("someuniqueidhere");
>     auth.setVersion(org.opensaml.common.SAMLVersion.VERSION_20);
>     DateTime dt = new DateTime();
>     auth.setIssueInstant(dt);
>     
>     
>     MarshallerFactory marshallerFactory =
> org.opensaml.Configuration.getMarshallerFactory();
>     
>     Marshaller marshaller = marshallerFactory.getMarshaller(auth);
>     
>     String msg = "";
>     Element authElement = null;
>     if (marshaller == null) {
>       msg = "unable to locate marshaller for [" +
> newIssuer.getElementQName() + "]";
>     } else {
>       authElement = marshaller.marshall(auth);
>     }
>     
>   DOMImplementationRegistry registry =
> DOMImplementationRegistry.newInstance();
>
>   DOMImplementationLS impl =
> (DOMImplementationLS)registry.getDOMImplementation("LS");
>
>   LSSerializer writer = impl.createLSSerializer();
>   String str = writer.writeToString(authElement);
>   str = str.replace("<", "&lt;");
>   str = str.replace(">", "&gt;");
> // ----- 
>
> It's not the greatest or prettiest, but it's something you can start
> with.
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Subash Devkota [mailto:] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 7:59 AM
> To: 
>
> Subject: Help starting openSAML
>
> Hi all,
>
> I want to test and implement  openSAML API. I have got the jar and code.
>
> But, I am getting problem how to start using it. I could not find any
> good tutorial or example for simply creating  SAML objects and writing
> to xml.
>
> I found one example code from
> https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/SHIB/OSTwoUsrManJavaCreateFromScrat
> ch
> but got error using it.
>
> > public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception{
> >       
> > //             Get the builder factory
> >           XMLObjectBuilderFactory builderFactory = 
> > Configuration.getBuilderFactory();
> >           
> >           // Get the subject builder based on the subject element name
> >           SubjectBuilder builder = (SubjectBuilder ) 
> > builderFactory.getBuilder(Subject.DEFAULT_ELEMENT_NAME);
> >           
> >           System.out.println("subject builder is :"+builder);
> >           // Create the subject
> >           Subject subject = (Subject)builder.buildObject();
> I got builder value in second step as null and get NullPointerException
> in third step as shown below:
>
> > subject builder is :null
> > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
>
> Can any one help me how to do it. Also, I would be grateful if anyone
> can show me the best example or tutorial for getting started with
> openSAML.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Subash 
>  
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