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The following attributes available on all metadata provider typesare supported for all MetadataProvider types:

Name

Type

Req?

Default

Description

type

string

String

Y

Specifies the exact type of

provider

metadata plugin to use

(from those listed above, or a custom extension type).

id

StringIdentity of the provider. Used

string

A label for the metadata source, used in logging and status reporting

.

validate

Boolean

boolean


false

Whether the XML

is to

should be schema validated before it is parsed. Note that some sources of metadata (e.g., ADFS) may contain a large number of extensions. The SP now includes a number of additional schemas to make validation of such extensions possible, but there are always exceptions.