Directory-based MetadataProvider

[Cantor, Scott]

> Is there a directory-based IDP MetadataProvider implementation?

No.

> The behavior I am looking for is a MetadataProvider which monitors and
> reads a directory and reads any files there for Metadata xml.  I know I can
> probably accomplish the same thing with a script which reads the directory
> and concatenates the metadata into one file, but I want to see what the
> alternatives are.

The best alternative to that is to simply generate the metadata directly into a single file, rather than the brittle approach of concatenating things that may end up contaminating the batch.

The metagen.sh script in the SP package is an example of one sort of script for this.

-- Scott