OpenSAML user discussion

[Chad La Joie <>]

Anil Saldhana wrote:
> b)
> I could not get to statements in an assertion. I had to cast it to
> AssertionImpl and get the statements.
> Maybe I can use the unknownxmlobjects or such in Assertion?
> ========================
>
>  XACMLAuthzDecisionStatementType decision = (XACMLAuthzDecisionStatementType)
>             
> OpenSAMLUtil.buildXMLObject(XACMLAuthzDecisionStatementType.DEFAULT_ELEMENT_NAME_XACML20);
>
>          //Some mismatch in the Statements for XACML
>          AssertionImpl assertionImpl = (AssertionImpl) assertion;
>          assertionImpl.getStatements().add(decision);
>
>          samlResponse.getAssertions().add(assertionImpl);

Not sure why you had to cast this.  The interface, Assertion, has the 
getStatements() method.  So you should be able to do this without casting.

> c) I hope for a better solution than the following - the unknown part:
> envelope.getBody().getUnknownXMLObjects().add(samlResponse);
>
> Basically, I did not use the xacml integration code from opensaml2 branch. I
> learned how to do things by picking nuggets of wisdom from the xacml layer
> of opensaml2. Hopefully once the xacml layer is properly integrated into a
> future version of opensaml2, I can work on better integrating my xacml
> library to the opensaml2xacml types. :)

This won't change.  This is simply how we model "any" types like the 
SOAP Body element.

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