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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Hi Shibboleth Gurus,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I figured I should reach out as opposed to spending too much more time banging into a wall on this question. I need to create a Bean for a custom intercept using the ScriptedFunction that can return a string. I appear though to be running into issues getting it to return a String back when called from the flow. Instead I am getting:</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D;background:#F8F8F8'> “</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D;background:#F8F8F8'>Caused by: org.springframework.expression.spel.SpelEvaluationException: EL1001E: Type conversion problem, cannot convert from net.shibboleth.utilities.java.support.logic.ScriptedFunction<?, ?> to java.lang.String”. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D;background:#F8F8F8'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D;background:#F8F8F8'>I have tried to convert it by using T(java.lang.String) as well as setting the </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>p:outputType="java.lang.String"</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D;background:#F8F8F8'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Would any of you have any pointers for getting around this conversion issue?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>--David<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><a href="https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/IDP4/ScriptedFunction">https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/IDP4/ScriptedFunction</a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>