OpenSAML user discussion

["Scott Cantor" <>]

> Actually, in the rest of opensaml2, and in the xmltooling encryption and
> signature providers, all the unmarshallers and marshallers actually extend
a
> specific subclass of the appropriate abstract XMLObject ones, and the
> unmarshallers delegate to the super if they encounter an element/attribute
> they can't process.  Some of those abstract supers just log it, some just
> ignore, but at least it's a point where we could do some kind of handling
if
> we so chose.  Maybe we could have a flag on Configuration that determines
> whether unknowns are a fatal error or just logged, and then implement
there.

Yes, I do the same thing (handle it in a base class I mean) and I happen to
think throwing is the proper behavior, but if it's at least an option that
would be better.

Actually I thought there was one, so perhaps this is only a problem because
of how the XACML classes were done...

-- Scott