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EntityAttributesFilter
- Scott Cantor
- Rod Widdowson
Namespace: urn:mace:shibboleth:2.0:metadata
Schema: http://shibboleth.net/schema/idp/shibboleth-metadata.xsd
Overview
A filter of type EntityAttributes adds or removes SAML entity attributes to or from metadata in order to drive software behavior. This filter is usually applied to an HTTP metadata provider such as the FileBackedHTTPMetadataProvider or the DynamicHTTPMetadataProvider, since locally maintained metadata is directly modifiable already.
The <mdattr:EntityAttributes> extension element is a container for entity attributes, sometimes referred to informally as "tags". "Tagging" an entity refers to attaching an entity attribute.
Syntactically, an entity attribute looks like an ordinary user attribute one might find in an assertion. For example: