SAML2XMLObject

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SAML2XMLObject

Namespace: urn:mace:shibboleth:2.0:resolver
Schema: http://shibboleth.net/schema/idp/shibboleth-attribute-resolver.xsd

The SAML2XMLObject attribute encoder encodes a XMLObject-valued IdPAttribute as a SAML 2 Attribute.

Reference

Name

Type

Req?

Default

Description

Name

Type

Req?

Default

Description

name

string

Y

 

Value to put into the "Name" attribute of the output <AttributeValue> elements

nameFormat

string

 

urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:attrname-format:uri

Value to put into the "NameFormat" attribute of the output <AttributeValue> elements

friendlyName

string

 

The enclosing attribute's ID

Value to put into the "FriendlyName" attribute of the output <AttributeValue> elements

NameTypeDefaultDescription
encodeTypebooleantrueControls whether the output form will contain an encoder-specific indication of the data type of the values. In XML, this takes the form of xsi:type attributes, which greatly bloat the size and generally should be avoided for string-valued data. The default is to continue to output the information, but we suggest disabling it in newer deployments and after testing against existing services.
activationConditionRefBean Reference

Bean ID of a condition bean that determines whether the encoder should be active, described further here.
Mutually exclusive with relyingParties attribute and <ActivationConditionScript> element

relyingPartieswhitespace-delimited list

List of entity IDs for which this Attribute Encoder should be active.
Mutually exclusive with activationConditionRef attribute and <ActivationConditionScript> element

Name

Cardinality

Description

Name

Cardinality

Description

<ActivationConditionScript>

0 or 1

Optional embedded script to supply an activation condition for the encoder. Mutually exclusive with the activationConditionRef and relyingParties XML Attributes.

Example

<AttributeEncoder xsi:type="SAML2XMLObject" name="urn:oid:......." friendlyName="Mad XML addtribute" encodeType="true" />