seeding the DynamicHTTPMetadataProvider

[Tom Scavo]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Brent Putman <putmanb at georgetown.edu> wrote:
>
> On 9/27/16 8:28 PM, Tom Scavo wrote:
>
> Is there a way to seed a DynamicHTTPMetadataProvider with a list of SP
> entityIDs? That is, the metadata for those entityIDs is loaded in the
> background, without waiting for a request from the SP.
>>
>> The only real question would be whether it was acceptable for such a
>> component to run synchronously at startup (i.e. blocking the start process),
>> or async in a background thread.

Yes, I understand the implementation choice. I will mention (something
you've probably already thought about) is that either approach seems
to overlap with the IdP's ability to restart based on the file-based
cache. All of those entities need to be in the file cache upon
startup.

Tom