tying attribute population to specific SPs

Cantor, Scott cantor.2 at osu.edu
Mon Oct 24 16:01:49 BST 2011


On 10/24/11 10:57 AM, "Liam Hoekenga" <liamr at umich.edu> wrote:
>
>We have a specific SP that is going to need to retrieve data from a
>separate data source.  Is it possible to limit the IdP such that it
>only queries the dataConnector when that specific SP's session is
>being established?  What I'd really like is the ability to
>conditionally use a dataConnector (i.e. only query the alumni data
>source if we're going to the alumni association SP).

No, that's a V3 feature.

>I know I could use a scripted attribute to check the requester Id and
>only continue if right conditions are met.. but it seems to me that if
>I do that, I need to handle the attribute retrieval in the script as
>well.

Yes. Ordinarily you should simply do the query.

-- Scott



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