Shibboleth Developers

[Jan Peter Stotz <>]

Hi Chad,

thanks for the example. Looks like my understanding of the XML Schema
and how to use it in handlers.xml was better than I thought because I
came to the same result - just with one small difference: on my system
it doesn't work :(

I get the exception:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot locate BeanDefinitionParser
for element: {urn:mace:shibboleth:2.0:idp:profile-handler}LoginHandler

while Shibboleth's ProfileHandlerGroupBeanDefinitionParser.parse(..)
method is executed (that is the relevant class of the stack trace).

I simply don't understand why that happens. While debugging using
break-points I verified that my the relevant NameSpaceHandler of
Shibboleth and my own are correctly loaded, the custom schema file is
loaded, too.

Ciao Jan

Chad La Joie wrote:
> A namespace declaration looks like this:
> 
> xmlns:PREFIX="some:urn:or:url"
> 
> Then you use the declaration like this:
> 
> PREFIX:MyCustomType
> 
> So, assume a created namespace of "http://fraunhofer.de/idp/handler"; and
> assume the custom type that you defined was "SmartCard" like you had.
> 
> You declare your namespace, usually at the top of the file, but really
> any time before you use it is fine.  So, you'd do this:
> 
> <ProfileHandlerGroup
>    xmlns="urn:mace:shibboleth:2.0:idp:profile-handler"
>    xmlns:custom="http://fraunhofer.de/idp/handler";
>    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
>    xsi:schemaLocation="urn:mace:shibboleth:2.0:idp:profile-handler
> 
> classpath:/schema/shibboleth-2.0-idp-profile-handler.xsd
>                        http://fraunhofer.de/idp/handler
>                        classpath:/schema/fraunhofer-custom-handler.xsd">
> 
> 
> And then you'd use it as such:
> 
> <LoginHandler xsi:type="custom:SmartCard">
> <AuthenticationMethod>urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:ac:classes:unspecified</AuthenticationMethod>
> </LoginHandler>