perfsonar development work

[Jason Zurawski <>]

Cándido;

I am currently traveling, so I have not had a chance to fully look into 
your responses.  I will get back to you as soon as I am able to and have 
had a chance to review what you are proposing.

-jason

> Hi Jeff and Jason,
> do you need more information about this issue?
> However, I've taken a look at the source code of nmwg classes and I've 
> seen that the class org.ggf.ns.nmwg.base.v2_0.Element, which I guess I 
> should use when the schema says 'anyElement*', is not 100% implemented 
> because some useful methods, such as 'addChild' or 'getDOM', are like 
> empty.
> So, in case I should add the xacml request inside an element in the 
> nmwg message I cannot do it right now.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Regards
>
> El 12/05/2008, a las 11:39, Cándido Rodríguez Montes escribió:
>
> > Hi Jeff and Jason,
> >
> > El 09/05/2008, a las 17:42, Jeff W. Boote escribió:
> >
> > > Specifically... Will this need to 'ride' along within the context of 
> > > other messages? Or is this only within the context of a service 
> > > communicating with the AS? (If it needs to 'ride along' it would 
> > > argue for perhaps actually using the SOAP headers, or perhaps 
> > > message parameters.)
> >
> > It's only within the context of a service communicating with the AS. 
> > I though that I can include it inside the SOAP headers but I don't 
> > think it's the right place because it's not information about the 
> > message but it's the query that the service want to send to the AS.
> > The request that I'm trying to define is the authorization request 
> > from a perfSONAR service to an AS. And I want to send a message like 
> > the following:
> > <nmwg:message id="authRMessage1" type="AuthNEERequest" 
> > xmlns:nmwg="http://ggf.org/ns/nmwg/base/2.0/";>
> >                <nmwg:metadata id="authRMetadata">
> >                    <nmwg:parameters id="keys">
> >                        <nmwg:parameter 
> > name="SecurityToken">XXXXXXX</nmwg:parameter>
> >                    </nmwg:parameters>
> >                </nmwg:metadata>
> >                <nmwg:data id="authN1" metadataIdRef="authRMetadata">
> >                    <Request>
> > .
> > .
> > .
> >                    </Request>
> >                </nmwg:data>
> >  </nmwg:message>
> >
> > And the response, it'd be very similar to the authentication response:
> > <nmwg:message id="authRMessage1_resp" messageIdRef="authRMessage1" 
> > type="AuthREEResponse" xmlns:nmwg="http://ggf.org/ns/nmwg/base/2.0/";>
> >        <nmwg:metadata 
> > id="localhost.localdomain.2c534c44:114b3c44663:-7fcd">
> >            <nmwg:eventType>XXXXXXX</nmwg:eventType>
> >        </nmwg:metadata>
> >        <nmwg:data 
> > id="localhost.localdomain.2c534c44:114b3c44663:-7fcc" 
> > metadataIdRef="localhost.localdomain.2c534c44:114b3c44663:-7fcd"/>
> >    </nmwg:message>
> >
> > So, is there any place where I can put the <Request> element inside a 
> > nmwg message?
> >
> > Thanks for your help!
> >
> > > jeff
> > >
> > > On May 9, 2008, at 5:35 AM, Jason Zurawski wrote:
> > >
> > > > Cándido;
> > > >
> > > > > I need to include a XACML request inside the authorization request 
> > > > > that I'm trying to define right now. That XACML request is 
> > > > > something like:
> > > > > <Request>
> > > > >  <Subject 
> > > > > SubjectCategory="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:subject-category:access-subject">
> > > > >    <Attribute 
> > > > > AttributeId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:subject:subject-id" 
> > > > > DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string";><AttributeValue>kan</AttributeValue></Attribute>
> > > > >  </Subject>
> > > > >  <Resource>
> > > > >    <Attribute 
> > > > > AttributeId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:resource:resource-id" 
> > > > > DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#anyURI";><AttributeValue>http://perfsonar.net/MA</AttributeValue></Attribute>
> > > > >  </Resource>
> > > > >  <Action>
> > > > >    <Attribute 
> > > > > AttributeId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:action:action-id" 
> > > > > DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string";><AttributeValue>read</AttributeValue></Attribute>
> > > > >  </Action>
> > > > > </Request>
> > > > >
> > > > > The problem is that I don't know how I could add it inside a nmwg 
> > > > > message. My choice is adding it inside a <nmwg:data> element 
> > > > > (please, tell me if I'm wrong doing in this way). The thing is 
> > > > > that I can get the String or the DOM Element but I didn't find a 
> > > > > way to add it into a Message object.
> > > > > Please, any help? any idea? :-)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > A quick question, what is the overall purpose of this type of 
> > > > request?  What would be the response to this?  With some more 
> > > > context I could probably help suggest a fitting structure.