[JIRA] Trying to submit a bug report (documentation issue)

[Scott Cantor]

On Feb 9, 2026, at 3:20 PM, John Porter <jporter2 at swarthmore.edu> wrote:
> 
> You are correct that we had one reference to Predicate (no S) and I have commented that out and one of the warnings does go away. This was in our cas-protocol.xml file. No issue doing away with that reference.
> 
> But in our relying-party.xml file I have the following block which definitely is using predicateS (plural). I can comment out this block and reload relying party, 2 deprecated warnings go away. I can then uncomment this block and 2 deprecated warnings re-appear. This is the exact block I'm toggling. If it is the case that the deprecation warning is throwing a false negative, that would be fantastic!:
> 
>         <bean id="shibboleth.regexRelyingParty" parent="RelyingParty" >
>           <property name="activationCondition" >
>             <bean class="net.shibboleth.idp.profile.logic.RelyingPartyIdPredicate" >
>               <constructor-arg name="pred" >
>                 <bean class="com.google.common.base.Predicates" factory-method="or" >
>                   <constructor-arg>
>                     <util:list>
>                       <bean class="com.google.common.base.Predicates" factory-method="containsPattern" c:_0="https:\/\/(.+\.)?redacted\.com\/.*" />
>                       <bean class="com.google.common.base.Predicates" factory-method="containsPattern" c:_0="https:\/\/redacted\.redacted\.edu\/.*" />
>                     </util:list>
>                   </constructor-arg>
>                 </bean>
>               </constructor-arg>
>             </bean>
>           </property>
>           <property name="profileConfigurations">
>             <list>
>               <ref bean="CAS.LoginConfiguration" />
>               <ref bean="CAS.ProxyConfiguration" />
>               <bean parent="CAS.ValidateConfiguration" p:userAttribute="email" />
>             </list>
>           </property>
>         </bean>

My guess is the factory-method="or" call is manufacturing something that's triggering a warning I wouldn't think is even possible, but the replacement for that is already in the other page, it's the <bean parent="shibboleth.Conditions.OR"> syntax.

"contains" is not a method anything in Java supports so that one can't be replaced, but conjunctions are built-in.

There's no reason to comment anything out in either place, it's a matter of correction, not removal.

I don't even know when those warnings were removed but I can't find any reference to them anywhere in any version going back a very long way, so I suppose the warnings themselves are long gone by now. Or I just can't remember how they were generated. The Guava to Java predicate migration is very old, when V4 shipped on Java 11.

-- Scott