OpenSAML user discussion

[Brent Putman <>]

Neill Miller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> To make the question more clear (hopefully), how about this:
>
> https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/OpenSAML/OSTwoUsrManJavaAnyTypes#OSTwoUsrManJavaAnyTypes-AttributeValues
>
> This page has a code snippet that properly builds the AttributeValue 
> element inside of the Attribute tag.  This example works great for me, but 
> now I'm creating my own type instead of an XSString.
>
> So I want to do something like this instead:
>
> -------------------------
> Attribute attribute;
> XSMyTypeBuilder = (XSMyTypeBuilder) 
> Configuration.getBuilderFactory().getBuilder(XSMyType.TYPE_NAME);
>
> // build custom type for method 1 (below): NOTE this way avoids the 
> xsi:type emission
> XSMyType myTypeValue = 
> myTypeBuilder.buildObject("http://www.myns.org","myType","myns";);
> // OR
> // build custom type for method 2 (below)
> XSMyType myTypeValue = 
> myTypeBuilder.buildObject(AttributeValue.DEFAULT_ELEMENT_NAME, 
> XSMyType.TYPE_NAME);
>
> myTypeValue.setParam1("foo");
> myTypeValue.setParam2("bar");
> attribute.getAttributeValues().add(myTypeValue);
> -------------------------
>   

Partially where you're getting tripped up I think is that you are
overloading what you are calling QName "myns:myType".  It can' be both a
type and an element. 

If I may use different names:  you have a type that you want to
represent as the AttributeValue that is "myns:FooType".  That content
model is a complex type that contains (based on what you've illustrated)
a child element, let us call it "myns:Bar".  That Bar element has a
content model that contains 2 attributes  "param1" and "param2".

So you need 2 XMLObject provider sets, one that implements the
myns:FooType content model,  the other which implements the  myns:Bar
content model.

And then in  your runtime code, you create a a FooType instance, that
has the element name of "AttributeValue" (based on how you call the
builder), and then a Bar instance, and set Bar as a child of the
FooType/AttributeValue.

Make sense?

--Brent