README.md in mdqt-0.6.0 vs README.md in mdqt-0.7.0
- old
+ new
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- Downloading single entities, lists or aggregates
- Signature verification
- Validating metadata against SAML2 schema
- Saving metadata to disk
- Extracting entity IDs from both aggregate and individual metadata files
- - Renaming metadata files to their entity ID sha1 hashes
- - Creating sha1 hash symlinks to metadata files
+ - Renaming metadata files to their entity ID sha1 hashes (for use with LocalDynamicMetadataProvider)
+ - Creating sha1 hash symlinks to metadata files (also for use with Local Dynamic Metadata)
- Listing the entity IDs of downloaded metadata files
- Showing the full URL of an entity
- Caching entity metadata and using Gzip compression
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[useful page explaining MDQ](https://www.ukfederation.org.uk/content/Documents/MDQ)
## Installation
MDQT is tested on recent MacOS and Linux, and should work with
- Ruby 2.1.0 or later and recent JRuby releases.
+ Ruby 2.2.0 or later and recent JRuby releases.
### As a gem for general use
To install system-wide on your default Ruby, use
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The `--save-to` option requires a directory to be specified. All files will be saved
with a name based on their transformed identifier (sha1 hash) such as
`77603e0cbda1e00d50373ca8ca20a375f5d1f171.xml`
-By adding the `--link-id' flag alternative filenames will be linked to the
-original file (this is currently a little experimental) to make it easier
-to look up the correct file using other identifiers.
-
### Other Features
For more information about current settings, download results, and so on, add
`--verbose` to commands:
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$ mdqt url http://entity.ac.uk/shibboleth
MDQT can accept input on stdin, allowing composition and pipelining
- $ cat list_of_ids.txt | bundle exec mdqt url
+ $ cat list_of_ids.txt | mdqt url
$ mdqt list | grep cern.ch | mdqt get --save-to cern_metadata/ --list | mdqt ls
## Alternatives