IdP can't populate values from SQL

[Matthew Holmes]

Hi,

For a number of days now, I've been trying to configure our IdP (v2.1.5) to retrieve custom attributes such as UniversityCardNumber from a SQL Server 2005 database. I receive no errors in the idp-process.log which I've got cranked up to DEBUG, and SQL Profiler shows valid SQL queries are running against the database from the IdP. However, the IdP does not appear to be able to set values for the attributes. It keeps removing the attribute from the reply to the SP as "it contains no values".

I have swapped JDBC drivers and tried both Container Managed and Application Managed connections; neither has made any difference. Even replacing the SQL query with SELECT '1234567' AS UniversityCard has made no difference. I have verified that the queries running under the IdP's SQL credentials do produce results, so I'm quite puzzled by this behaviour.

I realise our IdP is a few versions behind, but wondered if anyone else had encountered these problems, or knew if this is a bug resolved in later versions of the IdP?

Thanks,

Matthew Holmes
Analyst Programmer, Business Systems Development Team
Information Services, The University of Nottingham

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