OpenSAML user discussion

[Chad La Joie <>]

Yeah, it's a bug.  I think I'm just going to rip out that code on the 
marshallers and unmarshallers that makes the check.  It's turning out to 
be a pain and I know the C++ code doesn't have it.

Scott Cantor wrote:
> > I'm receive the xml message from a different system and just want to
> > unmarshall it
>
> Well, that system is sending something it really shouldn't send.
>
> >         Seems like that might be a bug in the code, though.
> > My or others?
>
> It's arguably as bug in OpenSAML. It looks up the unmarshaller by type
> first, and that particular code is insisting that the element not be Issuer.
> Since it claims to be a type-based unmarshaller, I'm not sure it should do
> that.
>
> (This is Java, so I'm not fixing it or claiming it is or isn't broken, just
> musing about it.)
>
> -- Scott

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