OpenSAML user discussion

["Tom Scavo" <>]

Gitesh, have you considered embedding your proprietary content in the
saml:Advice element?  It will accommodate just about anything, I
believe.

Hope this helps,
Tom

On 7/2/07, Gitesh Malik 
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 wrote:
> I am working with openSAML 1.0. We have a requirement of carrying around a
> 'reference handle' in the assertion. From what I have heard from other
> developers it is not possible to insert extra nodes within the assertion xml
> as this leads to the assertion xml not being validated by opensaml (as I
> hear, its possible with the next version of opensaml). Therefore I am
> planning to inject the handle as a Comment node in the xml. Therefore
> assertion is created in the way –
>
> SAMLAssertion assn = new
> SAMLAssertion((Element)assertionNode); //assertionNode has
> a comment set in. it may be arbitrarily big
>
> However when assertion.toString() is called to retrieve the assertion – the
> underlying comment is no longer available in the returned xml string. So it
> seems that I would have to carry the assertion externally for the purpose
> and not rely on assertion.toString() to retrieve the 'reference handle'.
> Javadocs and documentation on the web do not indicate any way to change the
> toString() behaviors through some passed in config param either.
>
> I can take care of the issue by marinating external assertion. However this
> is definitely not the cleanest way. Wonder if any one else has ever come
> across this issue and handled it in more graceful way.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -gitesh