SP V3 metadata types

[Tom Scavo]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 12:54 PM, Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:
>> I was looking over the SP V3 metadata docs and noticed two features that I
>> wish the IdP had: the Folder type and the MDQ type. (I don't like the names but
>> that's beside the point.) The latter will become a useful convenience for
>> deployers. Despite the appearance of LocalDynamicMetadataProvider, the
>> former will become useful if the notion of "high-value SP" catches on. I'm
>> betting that it will.
>
> Folder is all but deprecated (probably will be, I haven't decided yet), given how it's implemented it's useless now.

I don't know anything about the implementation.

> It's been replaced by LocalDynamic, which is superior.

For the use cases you have in mind, yes, that's probably true. There
is another use case emerging, called the "high-value SP," and AFAICT
the LocalDynamicMetadataProvider type is of no use in that case.

> AFAIK, the syntax for the IdP is equivalent to the MDQ shorthand we added

Hmm, if that's true, I don't know about it. It is certainly not documented.

Tom