Is there a way to add metadata without reloading all metadata?

[Matthew Slowe]

On 04/12/2023 08:46, Noriyuki TAKEI wrote:
> I have a question about the reloadable service listed on the following page.
> https://shibboleth.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IDP5/pages/3199507931/ReloadableServices <https://shibboleth.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IDP5/pages/3199507931/ReloadableServices>
> 
> When I add metadata, all metadata is reloaded when I call the following 
> API to activate the metadata.
> GET 
> http(s)://[idp-base-url]/idp/profile/admin/reload-service?id=shibboleth.MetadataResolverService
> 
> Is there a way to add metadata without reloading all metadata?

If you can tolerate changing how your local metadata is stored on disk, 
you can use the LocalDynamicMetadataProvider 
(https://shibboleth.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IDP4/pages/1265631642/LocalDynamicMetadataProvider) 
which is a bit like "local MDQ".

You will need to put all the trusted metadata in individual files in a 
directory named as the sha1 of the entityid to which is relates.

Once you're there, small amounts of caching aside, you won't need to 
reload the MetadataResolverService to ingest new metadata, just drop the 
file in the directory.

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