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[Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl>]

Hi all,

Together with the validator updates that Maja wrote about, we plan to 
install an updated version of the eduGAIN technical site. Both updates 
will be done on Monday 9th. The technical site update will contain a 
number of lower-level improvements mainly concerning the handling of 
validator warnings.

The is one important change - it might affect on some verification 
processes run by federations. The edugain_status API call will now 
return information about validator warnings in a new format. I attach an 
example json result.

There is the new validator_messages array which is indexed with 
validator error messages codes and as values shows "message" and "count" 
- the message being the text description of the warning and count - the 
number of entities in the given federation where this warning was 
found. If no warnings have been raised in the federation 
then validator_messages will be absent form the result.

The "warnings" field will no longer be sent. It contained a bitmap 
representing all warnings in the given federation (without the count) 
but as we exceeded 64 warnings we could no longer fit it in the integer 
field. Besides, it is probably a lot easier to process the new way of 
showing the warnings so rather that extending the previous approach we 
just dropped it.

Cheers

Tomasz

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Tomasz Wolniewicz

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