Can I get saml-token as string? - spring-saml

I am using spring-security-saml2 1.0.0.RELEASE.
It works well and pretty good for me.
But New requirement is rised. I need saml-token as string.
can I get the saml-token as string. I find saml-token in log.
But how to get the saml-token as string format?

Good question, I've just added a new chapter to the Spring SAML manual which addresses this issue:
Authentication assertion
Assertion used to authenticate user is stored in the
SAMLCredential object under property authenticationAssertion. By
default the original content (DOM) of the assertion is discarded and
system only keeps an unmarshalled version which might slightly differ
from the original, e.g. in white-spaces. In order to instruct Spring
SAML to keep the assertion in the original form (keep its DOM) set
property releaseDOM to false on bean WebSSOProfileConsumerImpl.
Assertion can be serialized to String using the following call:
XMLHelper.nodeToString(SAMLUtil.marshallMessage(credential.getAuthenticationAssertion()))

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Spring Boot doesn't recognize multipart form-data element when filename is missing

I have this code:
#PostMapping("foobar")
public ResponseEntity<SaveLogsResult> foobar(#RequestPart("file") MultipartFile log, #RequestPart("env") MultipartFile json){
return ResponseEntity.ok(fooService.saveFooBar(log, json, UUID.randomUUID().toString()));
}
Two applications send formally correct data to this endpoint, one fails miserably and receives an http status 400.
I set logging.level.org.springframework.web=DEBUG and can see (among other lines) this:
Required request part 'env' is not present
Resolved [org.springframework.web.multipart.support.MissingServletRequestPartException: Required request part 'env' is not present]
Completed 400 BAD_REQUEST
To further diagnose this I compared a working (left) and a non-working (right) request. The only different is the mising filename:
As far as I understand the RFC for Content-Disposition leaving out the filename is perfectly valid:
Is followed by a string containing the original name of the file
transmitted. The filename is always optional and must not be used
blindly by the application: path information should be stripped, and
conversion to the server file system rules should be done. This
parameter provides mostly indicative information. When used in
combination with Content-Disposition: attachment, it is used as the
default filename for an eventual "Save As" dialog presented to the
user.
Is this an error inside Spring ? I use Spring Boot 2.6.2
Unfortunately I can't change the non-working component for a quick test because it is a bought component that doesn't receive bugfixes very often.
I think that my problem is different from that described here because the failure only happens in a specific scenario.
It looks like you have to provide the filename. see this issue
This [The situation in which filename is not present] can lead to inconsistencies, e.g. you would get it with
MultipartFile but not with collection or array of MultipartFile, and
one can make the opposite argument that it should be rejected.
Why does it matter to have it injected as MultipartFile if it doesn't
even have a filename? You could also inject it as InputStream or any
other type supported by a registered HttpMessageConverter.

Can Jmeter LDAP Request or LDAP Extended Request populate a multi-valued attribute?

I am working on a Jmeter LDAP test plan and the test plan has to populate an attribute on the LDAP that is multi-valued.
When I do an LDAP search sampler, I noted that the value I get back is a string, with the values separated by ", ".
But, if I take the same comma-separated string and try to do an LDAP modify or add, using either an LDAP Request or LDAP Extended Request, I get an error.
So I am wondering if there is a way that the Jmeter LDAP Request or LDAP Extended Request can do that?
Thanks,
Jim
EDIT: When I try to use an Extended LDAP Request modification test/add with the attribute of "", I get this error in the Jmeter GUI response:
When attempting to modify entry cn=xxx... to replace the set of values for attribute lastlogindate, value "20181023085627-04, 20181024063205-04" was found to be invalid according to the associated syntax: The provided value "20181023085627-04, 20181024063205-04" is not a valid generalized time value because it contains an invalid character '-' at position 14
The strange part is that even though I have Jmeter to log at debug level, I don't see any detail on the error in the Jmeter.log, but/so I am guessing that that error message is coming from the Jmeter client itself. I noticed that the message says:
to replace the set of values
so it seems like it recognizes that I am trying to modify/replace a multi-value, but it doesn't seem to like the syntax of the replacement values string(s).
Does anyone know what the correct format SHOULD be?
I found the answer to my own question, or at least "A" answer: It appears that I can use an Extended LDAP request, and add the same attribute in that request, multiple times. So for example, if I am populating an attribute named "foo" the Extended LDAP request would have the following:
attribute value opcode
foo 12345 add
foo 12346 add
etc.
I think I also need to do a replace with no value, to empty the attribute, before all the adds.

Spring Data REST updates null properties on PATCH (when it shouldn't)

I am sending a PATCH request with null values in some properties of the entity and I see that the fields are updated in the database whereas according to spec they shouldn't (partial update). Trying to understand what's going on I see that the DomainObjectMerger is instantiated as a #Bean but its merge method never used (no references found and in debug mode breakpoint is never fired). Could someone explain how and when is the DomainObjectMerger used?
EDIT: I created a sample project with a failing test. The test tries to PATCH an entity passing null as a password and expects the password to not have been affected. But it fails because the password is now null in the database
https://github.com/otinanism/demo-rest-data
The code works as expected. Your PATCH payload looks like this:
{"id":"bc421109-edaf-4d4f-8d4c-71b62aa4d99f","username":"alex","password":null}
That's telling the server to wipe out the value for the password field. If you want to leave the password field untouched, make sure it's not even contained in the request payload, e.g. by configuring the ObjectMapper to not render null values.

How to validate request against XSD and return an error object?

My task is to implement a webservice that:
consumes an XML file on a POST endpoint
in happy flow, it returns a DTO as JSON + HTTP 2xx
the incoming XML file is validated against a XSD; if the validation fails, a JSON with a list of all validation errors is returned (including the line, column, error) with HTTP Bad request
the application exposes two endpoints, only one of them should be validated
I have started the implementation with Spring Boot + web, using regular #PostMapping which has "consumes" and "produces" set to application/xml and application/json, respectively. The usual flow works perfectly fine. Now, I stumbled upon the issue of validating the incoming payload. What I figured out:
1) I have to validate the payload before it is converted (marshalled) to an object.
2) Once validated, I have to either:
allow further processing
stop any further processing, write the error object to the response and set the status code to 400 Bad request
My approaches were:
1) using a RequestBodyAdvice, more specifically the beforeBodyRead method implementation. I had the following issue here: I don't know how to write anything to the output in case the validation fails.
2) using a Filter (I've extended OncePerRequestFilter) - fortunately, I can read the request (request.getInputStream()) and write to the response (response.getOutputStream()).
However, how can I do the selective filtering (as mentioned, I only want to validate one single endpoint)?
Are there any other alternatives for placing the incoming request XSD validation? Is spring-web the appropriate choice here? Would you recommend some other library / framework?
To validate xml against xsd schema, my preference is XML Beans. It is very easy to use. Other options are JABX, Castor. Take a look at Java to XML conversions?.
You will need to jar using xsd schmema and will need to put it in the classpath of your application so that it's classes are available for you for validation. Please take a look at this blog.
You can use validation API as mentioned here.
I would prefer to write validation code in the aspect so that it can be reused with other APIs.
If validation fails, throw valid exception from the aspect itself.
If validation is passed, process your input string that you receive.
Please let us know if you need any more information.

What's the best way to do XMLObject Validation

I'm doing Sprimg WS at my workplace. We run into some strange validation problems, where if a user passes "Dog" for a boolean value. It still accepts it and blows up. I would like to know what's the best way to handle this kind of problem.
Requirement:
Based on the SOAP request, If there are any validation errors, return the set of customized errors back to the user.
Technology used,
XMLObject for XML to Object translation.
Current way to validate (Which I feel can be improved)
Checking if the element is Nil and is Set for each and every element in the XML.
What I tried?
I tried to use XMLObject Validate method, Which I suppose just returns one error at a time.
Which is not feasible for us. I want to send the list of errors which the request forgot to comply with the XML Schema.
Please suggest me some ways to proceed with this , which could be efficient.
You should validate against your XSD schema(s) in your WSDL.
I have written a tutorial with server validation here and a tutorial with client validation here that hopefully gives you some suggestions!

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