Dealing with EmptyAttributeValues when encoding SAML2Strings

Max Spicer max.spicer at york.ac.uk
Wed Apr 7 14:31:07 UTC 2021


On Wed, 7 Apr 2021 at 14:38, Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:

> On 4/7/21, 9:08 AM, "users on behalf of Max Spicer via users" <
> users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of users at shibboleth.net> wrote:
>
> >    The attribute definition is:
> Entirely unnecessary. Simple on top of anything with no transformation can
> be replaced by an exporting DataConnector and a transcoding rule, no
> definition needed.
>

I know. :-) One step at a time...


> > Can we filter the null values from being encoded somehow?
> I would have thought Simple might do it actually, making the definition
> worth something but it's useless as it stands. The most logical thing might
> be to enhance it to have that option to drop nulls or empties so that it
> can clean the values, which adds some value back to Simple.
>

Is it worth me submitting an enhancement request for this? It's not
anything I'd attach any priority to personally but would be nice to have.

Thanks for the advice and sugestions!

Max
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