OpenSAML user discussion

[Chad La Joie <>]

Make sure you're using the correct certificate object type.  The JDK
includes two difference ones and, I would guess, bouncycastle (which is
included with OpenSAML) also includes such an object.  The one you want
is java.security.cert.X509Certificate I think.

On 3/30/10 11:09 AM, 

 wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm totally new to using SAML and OpenSAML in particular.  I need to create 
> a sender-vouches assertion that is signed using an x509 key. (for NYS Heal5 
> HIE, if anyone is wondering)  I have the following code:
> 
> DefaultBootstrap.bootstrap(); // initialize the opensaml library
> // jtc -- now, build the assertion
> XMLObjectBuilderFactory builderFactory = Configuration.getBuilderFactory();
> SAMLObjectBuilder<Assertion> builder = (SAMLObjectBuilder<Assertion>) 
> builderFactory.getBuilder(Assertion.DEFAULT_ELEMENT_NAME);
> Assertion assertion = builder.buildObject();
> // jtc -- we have the naked assertion now.  let's add the interesting stuff.
>                  
> // jtc - signature and credential
> BasicX509Credential privateCredential = new BasicX509Credential();
> InputStream inStream = new FileInputStream((String) samlInfoVector.get(0)); 
> // position 0 has the key file
> X509Certificate cert = X509Certificate.getInstance(inStream);
> inStream.close();                 
> privateCredential.setEntityCertificate(cert);
> 
> I'm having a problem with that last line, setting the EntityCertificate.  
> The error I'm getting is:
> 
> The method setEntityCertificate(X509Certificate) in the type 
> BasicX509Credential is not applicable for the arguments (X509Certificate)
> 
> Any guidance on what's going here would be much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> Jason Countryman

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