Extending the SP Dynamic Metadata Provider

[Rod Widdowson]

> Yes, good point. Which reminds me, does the dynamic provider remove
> expired metadata it finds in the directory? If so, does it do lazy
> removal (as expired entities are accessed) or a periodic sweep of the
> directory or something else?

If you are speaking of the SP, right now that is the file:///  thing and no it does nothing.  I rather feel that it shouldn't -it
doesn't populate it so it shouldn't delete the files.  I don't know whether having found an expired entity it stops dead or carries
on down the chain, but I would rather explain the latter.

If you are speaking of the IdP and its LocalDynamicMetadataProvider then I think that the same is true.

If you are speaking of caching then the IdP does a sweep through (see the documentation for the cleanupTaskInterval in
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/x/8YAOAQ)

The SP currently doesn't currently cache, but I suspect that I would model its behavior on the IdP.

Rod