MetadataProvider / FilesystemMetadataProvider from a directory

[Youssef Ghorbal]

> On 20 Jul 2015, at 21:13, Kevin Foote <kpfoote at uoregon.edu> wrote:
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>> On Jul 20, 2015, at 12:04 PM, Youssef Ghorbal <youssef.ghorbal at pasteur.fr> wrote:
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>> 	Is there any way to configure metadata-provider.xml in a way that it reads all *.xml files from a directory (the FilesystemMetadataProvider plugin specifcally) ?
>> 	I want to simplify SP metadata decalaration in a way that it’s just : "drop an XML in a directory and reload the service”. 
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> To date the IdP does not have a Directory based MetadataProvider that I know about anyway.
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> One approach is to create a <EntitiesDescriptor> file that you can put all your local SP metadata into and set the refresh on that file to happen on a given interval according 
> to your needs. This is what I do locally as do others I believe.

Thanks for the reply. That’s what I was intending to do, I was just asking if there were anything natively supported.
By the way, do you have some (homemade) tools to “construct” the file or just vi and copy/paste ?

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> The Shib-SP does however have a Directory based Provider :)

Good to know.

Youssef