OpenSAML user discussion

["Nguyen, Thai Q." <>]

Hello Neill,

Sorry I can't help but I have a question: How do you dump the XML?
I can do it in OpenSAML 1.1 but could not find the way to do it in 2.0.

Thanks in advance,

Thai

On Feb 6, 2009, at 9:59 AM, Neill Miller wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've implemented a custom datatype in OpenSAML2.0 (by following the  
> docs and the examples of the XS* types included in the library) and  
> things mostly seem to be working ok.  I have a question about how I  
> get the data into an 'AttributeValue' though.  I can create the type  
> and set the parameters as expected with:
>
> XSMyTypeBuilder mtb = new XSMyTypeBuilder();
> XSMyType myTypeValue = mtb.buildObject(
>   XSMyType.DEFAULT_ELEMENT_NAME, XSMyType.TYPE_NAME);
>
> myTypeValue.setParam1("foo");
> myTypeValue.setParam2("bar");
>
> // add to Attribute
> // add to AttributeStatement, etc
>
> However, when dumping the XML, I get the following format:
>
> <saml:Attribute Name="MyAttribute" NameFormat="myType">
> <myns:myType xmlns:myns="http://www.myns.org"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance 
> " param1="foo" param2="bar" xsi:type="myns:myType"/>
> </saml:Attribute>
>
> What I (think I) want though is something like this:
>
> <saml:Attribute Name="MyAttribute" NameFormat="myType">
> <saml:AttributeValue xmlns:myns="http://www.myns.org"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance 
> " xsi:type="myns:myType">
>  <myns:myType param1="foo" param2="bar"/>
> </saml:AttributeValue>
> </saml:Attribute>
>
> So I think I first need to do this:
>
> XSMyType myTypeValue = mtb.buildObject(
>   AttributeValue.DEFAULT_ELEMENT_NAME, XSMyType.TYPE_NAME);
>
> [ note use of AttributeValue's default element name, rather than  
> myType's ]
>
> I can get (very) close to the latter output by building that XML  
> string in the marshallElementContent method (and commenting out my  
> marshallAttributes method) of my marshaller, and adding it to the  
> domElement there, but the brackets get escaped in that case:
>
> <saml:Attribute Name="MyAttribute" NameFormat="myType">
> <saml:AttributeValue xmlns:myns="http://www.myns.org"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance 
> " xsi:type="myns:myType">
>   &lt;myns:myType param1="foo" param2="bar"/&gt;
> </saml:AttributeValue>
> </saml:Attribute>
>
> That's likely because of the way the XMLHelper.appendTextContent is  
> working.  Is there another method I can use that won't cause the  
> escaping, or is there a better XML output format I should be working  
> toward to get this going?
>
> thanks,
> -Neill.