Shibboleth Developers

[Chad La Joie <>]

What does you XML look like?  You would normally get that error only if
you didn't define a type for the <LoginHandler> element.

On 3/12/10 9:26 AM, Jan Peter Stotz wrote:
> 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>
> 

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