OpenSAML user discussion

[Chad La Joie <>]

https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/OpenSAML/OSTwoUsrManJavaAnyTypes

Rachana Ananthakrishnan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have the following code to create attributes with some string value, but
> end up with AttributeTypeImplBuilder ends up being null.
>
> Here are relevant code snippets:
>
> import org.opensaml.Configuration;
> static XMLObjectBuilderFactory builderFactory;
>     static {
>         try {
>             org.opensaml.DefaultBootstrap.bootstrap();
>         } catch (Exception e) {
>             // FIXME: handle exception better
>             System.err.println(e);
>         }
>         builderFactory = Configuration.getBuilderFactory();
>         System.out.println("Builder factory " + (builderFactory == null));
>     }
>
> // attribute builder is null here.
> AttributeTypeImplBuilder attributeBuilder = (AttributeTypeImplBuilder)
>  
> builderFactory.getBuilder(AttributeType.DEFAULT_ELEMENT_NAME);
>
> Is there any additional initialization that is required? 
>
> Thanks,
> Rachana

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