OpenSAML user discussion

[Manuela Stanica <>]

Hi,

I 'm using the latest code from the trunk on  
https://svn.middleware.georgetown.edu/ for java-opensaml2, 
java-xmltooling and java-openws.
Indeed the TP2 which we initially used is old and i'm working on 
upgrading the code now to the latest opensaml revisions. After having 
made some changes for the building ot work with the updates, I'm bumping 
into a bunch of issues now while testing.

Right now I get a NullPointerException error while trying to build 
objects (like an EntityDescriptor).
The code snippet is:

builderFactory = Configuration.getBuilderFactory();
EntityDescriptorBuilder edbuilder = 
(EntityDescriptorBuilder)builderFactory.getBuilder(EntityDescriptor.DEFAULT_ELEMENT_NAME);
EntityDescriptor entityDescr = (EntityDescriptor) edbuilder.buildObject();

The last line throws the exception as 
builderFactory.getBuilder(EntityDescriptor.DEFAULT_ELEMENT_NAME) returns 
null...
Upon checking I got that the builderFactory.getBuilders() map is empty, 
as if no builders had been registered at all. Looking into the code a 
bit I also didn't find any place where the builders, marshallers, etc 
from a configuration file were loaded. I seem to remember in TP2 that 
was happening with something like Configuration.load() or such.
What am I missing...?


I also got difficulties while trying to register new SAML objects, as in:
Configuration.registerObjectProvider(OnlineCAService.DEFAULT_ELEMENT_NAME, 
new OnlineCAServiceBuilder(),new OnlineCAServiceMarshaller(),new 
OnlineCAServiceUnmarshaller(), null);

This leads to a NullPointerException in the line 
configuredObjectProviders.put(providerName, configuration) inside the 
above method in Configuration because of the last parameter being null.
Yet, the javadoc says * @param configuration optional XML configuration 
snippet. If it's indeed optional (and I hope so), maybe there should be 
an if(configuration!=null) surrounding that line..?

Thanks in advance,
Manuela



Chad La Joie schrieb:
> If it wasn't in the distribution than that was a mistake, it should 
> have been.  You only need that library if you're trying to use JDK 1.4 
> version of the library as well.  So if you're running on 1.5 and 
> accidentally got the 1.4 code you might want to get the 1.5 code.
>
> Also, you should be using the latest code from trunk, the code from 
> TP2 is very old now.  The easiest way to do this is to pull the code 
> from the project java-shib-dist and run ./ant.sh opensaml
>
> Manuela Stanica wrote:
> > Solved that one by adding backport-util-concurrent.jar , but I hadn't 
> > found this lib among the ones from the opensaml releases... Maybe it 
> > would be good to include it in third-party libs since it seems to be 
> > needed?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Manuela
> >
> > Manuela Stanica schrieb:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've been working on moving from java opensaml libs TP2 to the last 
> > > versions available on the svn. At the moment I'm stuck with the 
> > > following error:
> > >
> > > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: 
> > > edu/emory/mathcs/backport/java/util/concurrent/ConcurrentHashMap
> > >    at org.opensaml.xml.Configuration.<clinit>(Configuration.java:54)
> > >    at 
> > > org.opensaml.xml.parse.BasicParserPool.<init>(BasicParserPool.java:121)
> > >    at 
> > > net.geant.edugain.meta.publish.MetaDataMarshaller.<init>(MetaDataMarshaller.java:64) 
> > >
> > >    ...
> > >
> > > The code builds and doesn't show any errors in the project but I get 
> > > this exception when trying to run my test classes.
> > > Help would be much appreciated... thanks.
> > >
> > > Manuela


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