Opinion on grouper/shib options

[Tom Zeller]

> On Sep 10, 2015, at 12:24 PM, O'Dowd, Josh <Josh.O'Dowd at mso.umt.edu> wrote:
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> Thanks Rod.  Unfortunately I am not having success with my implementation....
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> I have taken Scott's direction and created a new DataConnector using the idp-attribute-resolver-api.  I have chosen to extend the AbstractSearchDataConnector and I have completed the class along with its dependencies; such as ExecutableSearch, ExecutableSearchBuilder, MappingStrategy, and Validator.  The dependencies are wired into the new class during constructor.
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> I have wired the DC into spring using our /conf/global.xml (this does not seem to be working, see below...):
> 	<bean id="grouperWsDc" class="edu.umt.shibboleth.idp.attribute.resolver.dc.grouper.GrouperWSDataConnector" />
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> Our attribute-resolver.xml currently loads in LDAPDirectory DC via schema, which provides the bulk of our released user attributes.  The GrouperWS DC is intended to create a single 'isMemberOf' attribute to include in the release.  I have not add anything to attribute-resolver.xml for the GrouperWS DC or the 'isMemberOf' attribute.
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> So my initial difficulty is that the bean is not being loaded at startup.  I have a logger entry in the constructor that I am not seeing at runtime.
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> Not sure where to go from here...  Thanks for any help.

If the bean is not being used anywhere, then I would not expect it to be instantiated, even if defined in conf/global.xml. A data connector is usually instantiated by the parser which reads attribute-resolver.xml, and you said you have not added anything to that file.