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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/5/15 10:23 AM, Cantor, Scott
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<pre wrap="">On 11/5/15, 2:55 AM, "dev on behalf of Brent Putman" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dev-bounces@shibboleth.netonbehalfofputmanb@georgetown.edu"><dev-bounces@shibboleth.net on behalf of putmanb@georgetown.edu></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I was even thinking perhaps we needed new options on the clone methods to just do that by default, since seems a common case. But for the record here's what I did:
AuthnStatement statement = XMLObjectSupport.cloneXMLObject(sourceStatement);
statement.releaseDOM();
statement.releaseChildrenDOM(true);
return statement;
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We have 3-4 places in the code doing this, so I'd say it's a little awkward to have that sequence hanging out all over. A brief comment isn't very clarifying.</pre>
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No, it's awkward. I was thinking of adding something to the clone
methods to just do that. I don't know that there's any good reason
to ever return a cloned object that has a non-rooted DOM. We could
just change the no-boolean clone(XMLObject) method to do that by
default. We'd be changing behavior, but probably not in a bad way.
But if we think that's not allowed or advisable, I was thinking of
adding a new CloneOutputOption enum to support representing all 3
options, and a new clone(XMLObject, CloneOutputOption). Then
deprecate the clone(XMLObject, boolean) one.<br>
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