ResolverScriptAttributeDefinition problem with clojure

[Chad La Joie]

You'll need to talk with the clojure people.  If clojure is changing
the name of the attributes when it starts up then it needs to be
reversing the process when it completes.

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:31, Francesco Malvezzi
<francesco.malvezzi at unimore.it> wrote:
>
> I've a problem using clojure as a jsr223 scripting language.
>
> clojure places all variables in a namespace, for instance 'user' (which
> is the default namespace). A variable named 'cljattr' in a jsr223 script
> is read by java as 'user/cljattr'.
>
> The matter is that, while ScriptedAttributeDefinition actually receives
> 'user/cljattr', some step later ShibbolethAttributeResolver tries
> cleanResolvedAttributes on 'cljattr' (the part before the slash has been
> stripped). cljattr of course does not exist and I have a
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
>        at
> edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.common.attribute.resolver.provider.ShibbolethAttributeResolver.cleanResolvedAttributes(ShibbolethAttributeResolver.java:442)
> in aacli.sh.
>
> wiki at
> https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/ResolverScriptAttributeDefinition
> already covers what is (in my opinion) the same problem, in a symmetric way:
>        Attribute IDs may contain illegal characters
> Some scripting languages place certain restrictions on variable names
> (e.g. may not contain a "-"). Ensure that any attribute you wish to use
> does not contain such an illegal character in its ID. If it does use a
> Simple Attribute Definition to create a new attribute, with a different
> ID, whose source attribute is the attribute with the problematic ID.
>
> What am I doing wrong? Is there a work-around?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Francesco
>
> PS: follows the source of the test script:
> <resolver:AttributeDefinition id="user/cljattr" xsi:type="Script"
> language="Clojure" xmlns="urn:mace:shibboleth:2.0:resolver:ad">
>        <resolver:Dependency ref="ldap1" />
>        <resolver:AttributeEncoder xsi:type="SAML1String"
> xmlns="urn:mace:shibboleth:2.0:attribute:encoder"
>            name="urn:mace:dir:attribute-def:cljattr" />
>        <resolver:AttributeEncoder xsi:type="SAML2String"
> xmlns="urn:mace:shibboleth:2.0:attribute:encoder"
>            name="urn:mace:unimore.it:attribute-def:cljattr"
> friendlyName="cljattr" />
>        <Script>
>          <![CDATA[
> (ns user)
> (import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory)
> (import
> edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.common.attribute.provider.BasicAttribute)
> (import edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.common.attribute.BaseAttribute)
> (def logger (. org.slf4j.LoggerFactory getLogger
> "edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.resolver.Script.cljattr"))
> (def cljattr (BasicAttribute. "cljattr"))
> (.add (.getValues cljattr) "CLOJURE")
> (.info logger (str "cljattr class: " (.getClass cljattr)))
> (.info logger (str "cljattr: " (.getValues cljattr)))
>          ]]>
>        </Script>
>    </resolver:AttributeDefinition>
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