injecting a custom bean into a metadata filter

[Tom Scavo]

On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 5:42 AM, Rod Widdowson <rdw at steadingsoftware.com> wrote:
>> 1. Where should I put the beans? Inside a metadata provider like any
>> other metadata filter?
>
> Wherever suits you which out it into scope of the relevant Context.

Hmm, I'm still missing something I'm afraid.

> I would put them in a file which was pointed to by
> shibboleth.MetadataResolverResources  (which I think is what you mean when you say "Inside a metadata provider")

Every sample filter on that page is assumed to be a child element of
some parent <MetadataProvider>. (A <MetadataFilter> outside of that
context is like a fish out of water.) I'm trying to understand how the
beans are associated with a particular metadata provider.

Thanks,

Tom