OpenSAML user discussion

[Chad La Joie <>]

On 10/25/10 10:38 PM, shri kanth s wrote:
> With the above option(manually serialize and re-parse)....It seems when
> my application receives Response from Webservice...i need to parse each
> and every field in the response and construct an OpenSaml object
> manually........are we on the same page regarding this?

No, you would serialize the whole Axis Axiom document to a byte[] and 
then use a DOM parser to get the DOM document.  Then you could 
unmarshall it with opensaml.

> /<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<</
> /If you don't actually *need* to use Axis2 code for you client (i.e.
> don't need WS-* modules, etc), then we have a basic SOAP client in
> OpenSAML that you can use.  An example is here:
>
> //https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/OpenSAML/OSTwoUserManJavaSOAPClientExample//
>
> It's very simple, nothing fancy, just uses HTTPClient to send/receive a
> SOAP 1.1 Envelope, everything represented as OpenSAML XMLObjects./
> />>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>./
>
> I tried the above approach....The problem with the above is....If you
> have Document/Wrapped styled webservices where your message is wrapped
> inside another element(method name).....Then the above approach will not
> work....because HTTPSOAPClient expects only opensaml objects to be
> included as arguments.

Actually, what Brent said, was the use HTTPClient which just expects a 
stream, byte[], or string depending on the method you use for setting 
the body.

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