RE: [sunxacml-discuss] A problem with Obligations

[Jim A. <ji...@co...>]

Seth,

You're spot on with the analysis. After adebugging the code I changed my
policy to look like the following everything worked as expected.

<AttributeAssignment DataType="..." ...>value</AttributeAssignment>

cheers
</jima>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sun...@li... [mailto:sunxacml-
> dis...@li...] On Behalf Of seth proctor
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 5:14 PM
> To: ji...@bi...
> Cc: sun...@li...
> Subject: Re: [sunxacml-discuss] A problem with Obligations
> 
> 
> Hi Jim.
> 
> > I am issue a request against a set of Policies and get back the
correct
> > response with associated Obligations. The only problem is that the
> > Obligation does not contain the corresponding Attribute Value.
Basically
> > I get everything up to and including the AttributeAssignment but I
do
> > not get the enclosed AttributeValue node.
> 
> There is frequent confusion around how Obligations work. Without an
> example of the policy you're using I can't say for sure, but what
you're
> experiencing sounds like something I've heard before. I suspect that
> you're not seeing a bug in the code, but if what I suggest here
doesn't
> solve your problem let me know, and I'll take a closer look. Also,
make
> sure you're using the latest code, since there was a bug in the
initial
> 1.0 release.
> 
> The schema defines AttributeAssignment as an AttributeValue. The
common
> mistake that a lot of people make is to have something like
> 
>    <AttributeAssignment ...>
>      <AttributeValue DataType="...">value</AttributeValue>
>    </AttributeAssignment>
> 
> While technically valid, this probably isn't what you want. If you're
> trying to specify an AttributeValue that should get passed back from
an
> Obligation, you want
> 
>    <AttributeAssignment DataType="..." ...>value</AttributeAssignment>
> 
> Then when you get the AttributeValue, it will have the right value.
The
> 1.1 release (which is almost ready but moving slowly since I'm at CCS
> this week) contains a deeper Obligations example, but like I said I'm
> happy to walk through an example on the list if I haven't addressed
your
> problem here.
> 
> As a side note, there is still some question in my mind about the
right
> way to handle certain DataTypes in assignments. I'm trying to decide
now
> on the best way to fix this, but I don't think it's likely to relate
to
> your problem.
> 
> 
> seth
> 
> 
> 
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