Shibboleth Developer's Meeting, 2023-03-03

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09:00 Central US / 10:00 Eastern US / 15:00 UK / 17:00 FI

Calls are normally the 1st and 3rd Fridays of each month. Next call would be Friday 2023-03-17. Any reason to deviate from this?

60 to 90 minute call window.

This week's call will use the Zoom system at GU, see ZoomGU for access info.

Jetty 12 has entered beta phase. This requires Java 17 minimum but supposedly supports servlet 3.1, 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0, and both the javax and jakarta namespaces. Somehow. They clearly see this as the future after Jetty 10 and 11 retire. What does it mean for us?
Hack a thon postmortem if any feedback to raise

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JSSH-16: Update to Apache HttpClient 5.xClosed
- Fun with IPv6
- Looking at connection reuse + TLS issue ('Connection: close' header issue), no solid ideas yet
- Some minor issues to clean up
Next major project: AttributeQuery DataConnector

Absent today
JCOMOIDC-41: Move OIDC Signature Validation resolvers and parameter classes to commonsClosed
- Tests for signatures on issued JWTs now well covered (UserInfo, ID Token, JWT Access Token)
- Finalising the tests for encrypted JWTs: will need some discussion with Phil regarding client secrets
JOIDC-142: Improve Request Object handling and configurationClosed
- No progress since last meeting, but will continue this once tests (task above) is finished

As a easy task to do during convalescence concentrated on IDP-2069: Null Handling TaskClosed

Mostly exbedding fields into locals
Some changing of annotations
A few bugs
Use of better methods (BaseContext#getOrCreateSubContext(claz) rather that BaseContext#getSubContext(claz, true)
- Deprecate the latter in V5?
assert where we
- are replacing an NPE or
- previously checked or
- From package we don’t own but is known to return non-null (Instant)
Constraints the module itself cannot determine null-ness
Currently “just” getting rid of red (errors). A second pass to get rid of (much. but not all) yellow (warnings)
TBD:
- idp-saml-impl (tests)
- idp-conf (tests)
I’ll send out mail when the IdP is “done” (at which stage we should all use the recommended org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs
OpenSAML TBD (but may require structural changes - like stopping the “null in → null out” paradigm.