Shibboleth Developers

["Tom Scavo" <>]

On 3/2/06, Scott Cantor 
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 wrote:
>
> In fact, I would say that what's needed is to *extend* the principal mapper
> with the ability to create and consume the username based on a pattern, and
> specify the Format attribute you want. Then you can cover things like
> internal use, emailAddress, DN, etc. with one plugin.

So let me see if I understand what you're saying.  You want to extend
BaseNameIdentifierMapping with an abstract class that consolidates
PrincipalNameIdentifier, X509SubjectNameNameIdentifierMapping,
EmailAddressNameIdentifierMapping.  This abstract class would support
a generalized template/pattern mechanism similar to what
X509SubjectNameNameIdentifierMapping does now.  Then any
implementation of a SAML name identifier (except perhaps transient and
persistent) would be a simple extension of this abstract class.

Is this what you're suggesting?

Tom