SP MetadataProvider Precedence

[Albert Luo]

Thanks. Scott, Peter,

If I understand correctly, what I did with precedence="first" is
technically correct during the migration process.

>The lookup is on the entity and role,

What is a role?



> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 16:03:09 +0000
> From: "Cantor, Scott" <cantor.2 at osu.edu>
> To: Shib Users <users at shibboleth.net>
> Subject: RE: SP MetadataProvider Precedence
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>> But I am confused by the warning in the document:
>> https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/NativeSPMetadataProvider
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> The warning is referring to the fact that there's no merging across sources done. The lookup is on the entity and role, and once it finds a hit, that is the entire substance of the metadata used.
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> -- Scott
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