Instanciating an EntityDescriptor object

[Wessel, Keith]

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks, Scott. The ServiceTagSupport class looks pretty handy, too.

So, since I'm trying to access the loaded metadata on the SPs that did not initiate the logout request, this looks like more than just a JSP trick. It looks like I need to make some underlying code modifications to expose that metadata to logout.jsp. Is that correct? Or am I missing something?

Thanks,
Keith


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From: users-bounces at shibboleth.net [mailto:users-bounces at shibboleth.net] On Behalf Of Cantor, Scott
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 2:04 PM
To: Shib Users
Subject: Re: Instanciating an EntityDescriptor object

On 7/22/13 2:53 PM, "Wessel, Keith" <kwessel at illinois.edu> wrote:

>I¹m back on my mission of a fancy IDP logout page that lists the 
>service names from metadata of sessions that the IDP still believes to be active.
>I¹ve hit a stumbling block with my limited knowledge of the underlying 
>classes, though. I¹ve  got the ServiceInformation objects for each of 
>the SP sessions the IDP knows about, and I want to create an 
>EntityDescriptor object for each one in turn so I can parse out various 
>UI elements from metadata.

You don't need to create them, you have to get access to the metadata that's already loaded for those systems.

You might try adapating something from the getSPEntityDescriptor in the ServiceTagSupport class in the IdP that the taglibs use.

> 
>First, is this the right way to go about this?

No.

> 
>Secondly, I can¹t find any hints on the available constructors for the 
>EntityDescriptor class. I found out the hard way that it won¹t take a 
>string containing the entityID as returned from 
>ServiceInformation.getEntityID(). What tricks do I need to do to take 
>the information from the ServiceInformation object to build my 
>EntityDescriptor object?

Building anything requires going through the XMLObjectBuilder layer, and doesn't help you, that just builds an empty object.

> 
>I¹ve used the code available from the wiki for doing something similar 
>with the centralized discovery service, but that has a provider object 
>to pass into the construction of the EntityDescriptor.

That's not a constructor, it's retrieving one, not creating it.

-- Scott


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