Shibboleth Developers

[Brent Putman <>]

On 10/22/2010 4:58 AM, Etienne Dysli wrote:
>
> ERROR
> [edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.common.config.BaseService:187] -
> Configuration was not loaded for shibboleth.HandlerManager service,
> error creating components. The root cause of this error was:
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Authentication manager path may not
> be null
>
> Brent, did you get time to look into this issue?
>


You didn't post the actual error before, you just indicated a Spring
error. I had not tried to run it myself yet.  But I just now traced that
error, and it's coming from an additional null check that 2.2 introduced
in the SAML2 SSOProfileHandler constructor, which is the super class of
the LibertyIDWSFSSOSProfileHandler.  The latter doesn't use the
authentication engine, so it just calls super(null) in the constructor. 
The null value is causing the exception.  If you are willing to make
source changes, the simple workaround is just to pass any non-null value
there, and that should get around the problem for now.  There may be a
better refactoring, I'll do some investigating on that, and fix in svn
in the near future.