OpenSAML user discussion

[Manuela Stanica <>]

Manuela Stanica schrieb:
> Right now I get a NullPointerException error while trying to build 
> objects (like an EntityDescriptor).
Fixed this by adding DefaultBootstrap.bootstrap() before doing anything 
else... guess the way to configure the library had changed and I didn't 
find that right away.

There's still the question about registering new object providers though...

> 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