Shibboleth XML Configuration file Validation

[Mark O'Quinn]

Brent, really, really, thank you for your responses; I couldn't have got a better answer so cleared and detailed. Right now I'm testing what you told me and as soon as I have something complete I'll post my results here.

Kind Regards!

Mark


On Sep 24, 2012, at 6:15 PM, Brent Putman wrote:

> 
> On 9/24/12 4:30 PM, Brent Putman wrote:
>> You can obtain those service bean references via their Spring bean id's,
>> which are in turn exported to and so easily available from the
>> ServletContext (see the servlet context attribute exporter at the bottom
>> of service.xml).  
> 
> 
> I forgot that we actually have a more well-defined and official API for
> getting these service beans.  See:
> 
> edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.idp.util.HttpServletHelper
> 
> methods getProfileHandlerManager, getRelyingPartyConfigurationManager,
> getAttributeResolver, getAttributeFilterEngine.
> 
> These are probably better to use than accessing the servlet context
> attributes directly, as the Spring bean id's (or how you use them) are
> in theory subject to change, but the helper methods guarantee a stable
> API to get at these services.
> 
> --Brent
> 
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