Handling empty LDAP connection pools on IdP start-up

[Cantor, Scott]

On 3/10/17, 11:56 AM, "users on behalf of Wessel, Keith" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of kwessel at illinois.edu> wrote:

> Got it. Yeah, I don't get runtime errors with an empty pool, but I do get no attributes back even though my other data
> connectors are still functioning. Too bad there's not a way to configure failfast for a dataconnector to tell it to go ahead and
> resolve attributes from other data connectors without creating the static data connector.

I would guess that 4.0 is the right time to sit down and rethink all the failure behavior, as I've never particularly agreed with a lot of it. But there are different points of view about it.

> But your solution's easy enough. Is it valid to have a static data connector with no attributes in it, or is at least one attribute
> with one value required? 

I never tried, I think you have to have something there. I just use something I never reference anywhere.

-- Scott