From a9135499bdb5d380fb5bb612fe7cb42436ad6fe4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roland Hedberg <roland.hedberg@adm.umu.se>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:55:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] well-formed but empty attributes were causing an exception to
 be thrown. For example, my application has a few attributes that are required
 and a few that are not, eg, first_name. When first_name attr is empty, we use
 an empty string instead of exploding. -onceuponapriori

---
 src/saml2/client.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/saml2/client.py b/src/saml2/client.py
index ae4f355..77ec09c 100644
--- a/src/saml2/client.py
+++ b/src/saml2/client.py
@@ -614,7 +614,10 @@ def get_attribute_values(attribute_statement):
             name = attribute.name.strip()
         result[name] = []
         for value in attribute.attribute_value:
-            result[name].append(value.text.strip())
+            if not value.text:
+                result[name].append('')
+            else:
+                result[name].append(value.text.strip())    
     return result
 
 ROW = """<tr><td>%s</td><td>%s</td></tr>"""