Access metadata from DataConnector

[Simon Gfeller]

>
>
> >> how I can access the metadata of my IdP?
> >
> >I should also note that in contrast to V2 there is absolutely no guarantee
> >that your IdP's metadata will be in any of the metadata feeds that your
> IdP
> >uses, or it may be filtered out and so not available.
>
> The OP is mistakenly referring to "the IdP's metadata", but calling
> another system for an attribute query involves *another* IdP's metadata,
> not itself. It's a reasonable thing and probably would have come up if we
> got around to implementing such a connector.
>
> Lacking a SOAP client until just recently, we never did one. That's
> probably a more useful feature to leverage a SOAP client than either of the
> reasons we built it out.


Thank you for the answers and the discussion.  I've created the metadata
for my little test federation by hand and load it as local metadatas, thats
the reason I wrote "my IdPs metadata" and meant all the metadatas which my
IdP reads from this file. I can't describe it very good due to my hmmm
"moderate" english, but i give my best.

To write this attribute query connector is a part of a project in my
university, as a proof of concept. I thought to get the informations from
the metadatas would be nicer than for example getting the AQ location from
a database like I do it now. But now I'm a bit confused, I don't know if it
really make sense to try it, because it would take again a lot time for me,
time that I don't have to finish my project because there are also other
things to implement. I had already a long fight with OpenSAML3 to build and
send the query and verify the assertion:-)

I think, I'll try it later if there is enough time left. But I'm still
thankful for inputs, suggestions...

Simon
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