A better way to load a shib v2 service with no configuration ?

[Chad La Joie]

Tom, you can file an issue for this if you'd like.  That's something I
could easily fix in the next patch (whenever that is).

On 1/3/12 10:04 AM, Tom Zeller wrote:
>> what do you mean by "a configuration resource is required
>> to load the service". If I take a look at the
>> shibboleth-2.0-services.xsd, the element ConfigurationResource of the
>> abstract service type is declared as 0-to-unbounded.
> 
> Right, minOccurs="0" in the xsd, but in BaseService.java, if there are
> no service configurations the context is not loaded :
> 
>  protected void loadContext() throws ServiceException {
>   log.info("Loading new configuration for service {}", getId());
> 
>   if(serviceConfigurations == null || serviceConfigurations.isEmpty()){
>    setInitialized(true);
>    return;
>   }
> 
>  GenericApplicationContext newServiceContext = new
> GenericApplicationContext(getApplicationContext());
>  ...
> 
>> Does the code itself require it or does your "GrouperTarget" service
>> type overwrite the schema?
> 
> No overwrite, the grouper target implements (extends) a Service.
> 
>> A minor improvement -but still not a nice solution- is to use
>> java.lang.Object as an empty bean class.
> 
> Thanks.
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