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[Tom Scavo]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 6:17 AM, Ian Young <ian at iay.org.uk> wrote:
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>> On 14 Jan 2016, at 21:34, Michael A Grady <mgrady at unicon.net> wrote:
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>> One thing I had suggested to one client I was working with awhile back was the idea of maintaining a directory of individual files, but then having a script that read all those files in, checking schema validity etc. and outputting a new "aggregate" from those. (And maybe even checking that was valid before replacing the current local aggregate with the updated one.)
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> The Shibboleth MDA is also good for doing this kind of thing. The "suck up all files named by a particular pattern from a directory, transform each like this and make an aggregate from them" is the heart of the UK federation publication process, for example.

The InCommon Federation also uses the Shibboleth MDA in this way. Once
a day, unsigned entity descriptors are written to the file system
(from multiple sources) and then swept up by the MDA into an
aggregate.

Tom