requiring valid metadata

[Brent Putman]

On 3/29/16 6:44 PM, Cantor, Scott wrote:
> If the purpose was to prevent throwing away valid metadata for
> "newer" but invalid metadata, well, duh. Pretty sure the SP just
> checks for that and doesn't swap it in. Because, well, duh.

No, totally unrelated.  The Java ones are I think the same as what you
describe for the SP:  If the metadata it's trying to load during a
refresh isn't valid or doesn't pass the filters, etc, it's thrown away
and the most recently successfully-loaded metadata is kept.