Serializing a null <AttributeValue/> with 2.4.0

Cantor, Scott cantor.2 at osu.edu
Wed Jun 4 15:14:44 EDT 2014


On 6/4/14, 3:11 PM, "Nate Klingenstein" <ndk at internet2.edu> wrote:
>
>Is it possible to get a Shibboleth IdP v2.4.0 to serialize a null
>AttributeValue?

Not unless you build your own encoder, I suspect, and that might not even
work.

>It appears to be permitted by the specification, but as far as I know,
>null values don't escape the attribute resolver, and neither do
>attributes with no values.

Nope, see my response on saml-dev. I can't make the standard what I would
prefer, but I can control what stupidity we implement.

-- Scott




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