"Disappearing" Attributes in IdP v3

[Lucia Siochi]

I seem to have some attributes that "disappear" in the Attribute Resolver even though their values are found in Active Directory.   Below are excerpts from idp-process.log showing two of the AD attributes/values were found (sn and displayName), but when the attribute resolver tries to map them, it seems to be able to "see" only the sn/surname value from AD, and not the displayName value from AD.

I have also included excerpts from attribute-resolver.xml showing the entries for those two attributes.

My questions are:

*         Any ideas on what could be causing this "disappearing trick"?

*         Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this?

*         Would having a connection pool accessing various AD domains and OUs have an impact? (Only one instance of the username exists in the entire pool.)

Any help is appreciated!  Thanks!

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>From idp-process.log:

Here we see the values for displayName and sn are found in the data source:
2016-04-22 15:26:40,675 - DEBUG [net.shibboleth.idp.attribute.resolver.AbstractDataConnector:143] - Data Connector 'myAD11': Attribute 'displayName': Values '[StringAttributeValue{value=John Smith}]'
2016-04-22 15:26:40,680 - DEBUG [net.shibboleth.idp.attribute.resolver.AbstractDataConnector:143] - Data Connector 'myAD11': Attribute 'sn': Values '[StringAttributeValue{value=Smith}]'

Here we see the attribute 'surname' getting its value from the AD attribute 'sn':
2016-04-22 15:26:40,689 - DEBUG [net.shibboleth.idp.attribute.resolver.AbstractAttributeDefinition:247] - Attribute Definition 'surname': produced an attribute with the following values [StringAttributeValue{value=Siochi}]
2016-04-22 15:26:40,690 - DEBUG [net.shibboleth.idp.attribute.resolver.impl.AttributeResolverImpl:272] - Attribute Resolver 'ShibbolethAttributeResolver': Attribute definition 'surname' produced an attribute with 1 values

Here, however, the 'displayName' does not get a value, even though there is something in the 'displayName' AD attribute.
2016-04-22 15:26:40,690 - DEBUG [net.shibboleth.idp.attribute.resolver.AbstractAttributeDefinition:245] - Attribute Definition 'displayName': produced an attribute with no values
2016-04-22 15:26:40,691 - DEBUG [net.shibboleth.idp.attribute.resolver.impl.AttributeResolverImpl:272] - Attribute Resolver 'ShibbolethAttributeResolver': Attribute definition 'displayName' produced an attribute with 0 values


In attribute-resolver.xml, these are the entries for sn/surname and displayname.

    <resolver:AttributeDefinition xsi:type="ad:Simple" id="surname" sourceAttributeID="sn">
        <resolver:Dependency ref="myAD11" />
        <resolver:AttributeEncoder xsi:type="enc:SAML1String" name="urn:mace:dir:attribute-def:sn" encodeType="false" />
        <resolver:AttributeEncoder xsi:type="enc:SAML2String" name="urn:oid:2.5.4.4" friendlyName="sn" encodeType="false" />
    </resolver:AttributeDefinition>

    <resolver:AttributeDefinition xsi:type="ad:Simple" id="displayName" sourceAttributeID="displayName">
        <resolver:Dependency ref="myAD11" />
        <resolver:AttributeEncoder xsi:type="enc:SAML1String" name="urn:mace:dir:attribute-def:displayName" encodeType="false" />
        <resolver:AttributeEncoder xsi:type="enc:SAML2String" name="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113730.3.1.241" friendlyName="displayName" encodeType="false" />
    </resolver:AttributeDefinition>

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Lucia Siochi
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