Shibboleth FileBackedHTTPMetadataProvider

[Brent Putman]

On 3/31/16 1:12 PM, Brent Putman wrote:
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> On 3/30/16 7:31 PM, Brent Putman wrote:
>> I was just looking at it.  To special-case it just for *startup*
>> might be hard per se, but I think that's not really what you
>> technically want.  Probably want to only read the backing file if
>> there is no cached metadata in the resolver.  I think that's a purer
>> statement of the requirement.  And that is I think easier (although
>> I think I just spotted a minor non-operational bug that would need
>> to be fixed first).  I'll open an issue to look at further.
>>
>>
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> The issue for the conditional loading is:
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> https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/OSJ-160


This turned out to be super easy, so that will be done for 3.3.0.

So going forward this will change the answer I gave earlier in
discussion thread:  It now does in fact only load the backing file if
there's no cached metadata, and that's really only going to be the case
on resolver initialization (IdP startup).
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