Shibboleth Developers

[Kristof Bajnok <>]

On Wednesday 26 May 2010 14.41.07 Chad La Joie wrote:
> - Support the conditional evaluation of attribute definitions and data 
> connectors.  In some cases, some users have data connectors that may be 
> very expensive to resolve and so may only want to use them if some 
> condition is true.  This would allow for that.  The default behavior 
> would remain as it is today but people could add a new, optional element 
> giving an evaluation condition.

What kind of conditions are you considering? It's been come up several times 
that a condition on the peer's entityID would be beneficial. Besides, I can 
imagine situations where attribute value matches could be evaluated before 
firing the data connector (though I don't know if it's reasonably easy to 
implement).

All in all: the proposed changes sound very promising.

Kristof