Extending the SP Dynamic Metadata Provider

[Cantor, Scott]

On 10/30/17, 5:00 PM, "dev on behalf of Brent Putman" <dev-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of putmanb at georgetown.edu> wrote:

> I didn't really dump it, nor explicitly document it.  You can theoretically preload the dynamic providers by simply dropping XML
> into the persistent cache (i.e. drop files into directory if using the disk-based persistent cache).  On a (re)load, anything visible
> to the cache manager will get loaded, just like entries that were written to the cache after being dynamically resolved.

That's more a side effect I would say, the feature as it was originally thought of was to have some explicitly supported way to tell the system to prefetch and cache some set of entities, and I think we decided it wasn't needed because we'd eventually have plenty of ways of triggering that.

We're gonna have *some* kind of simple admin endpoint for querying metadata so a script calling that will accomplish it.

-- Scott