OpenSAML user discussion

[Hubert Le Van Gong <>]

Greetings & Happy New Year to all !

I have a question regarding the creation of an object marshaller:

I have a simple object of the following type

public class GetAssertion extends AbstractSignableXMLObject {

    public static String LOCAL_NAME = "GetAssertion";

    public static final String ATT_PURPOSE = "purpose";

    protected String purpose;

    private XMLObjectChildrenList<AuthnRequest> authnRequests;

/.../

    public String getPurposeValue() {

        return this.purpose;

    }

    public void setPurposeValue(String val) {

        this.purpose = prepareForAssignment(this.purpose, val);

    }

}

The String *purpose* is an attribute in the schema definition.

Now, when creating a marshaller for this object, is it OK to "skip" the

MarshallAttrbutes() and do as follows:

public class GetAssertionMarshaller extends AbstractXMLObjectMarshaller {

    @Override

    protected void marshallAttributes(XMLObject xmlObject, Element domElement) throws MarshallingException {

    }

    @Override

    protected void marshallElementContent(XMLObject xmlObject, Element domElement) throws MarshallingException {

        GetAssertion getAssertion = (GetAssertion) xmlObject;

        XMLHelper.appendTextContent(domElement, getAssertion.getPurposeValue());

    }

If not OK, how should I write marshallAttributes() ?

It seems to work fine in other instances but I wanted to check if I'm not

"abusing" the model here.

Cheers,

Hubert

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