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I am coming into this rather late and without certainty on everything you 
have tried, but I know that when I developed my first couple of custom data 
connectors, I had a few issues with the Bean Definition stuff, because I 
didn't realize how tightly the XML to Java bindings were.  I think I have 
seen that error before, and for me it was because I had an inconsistency in 
my Java code and XSD in terms of the name of a type.  I would recommend just 
doing a once over and make sure you didn't typo anything in the XML config 
file, the XSD, or the Java code.  

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From: Jan Peter Stotz 
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Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 9:26 AM
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Subject: [Shib-Dev] Re: Custom IdP Extension - example schema does not work

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>