django-saml2-auth-metadata-inline

A plugin to support inline metadata configuration in django-saml2-auth

Introduction

By default, django-saml2-auth only supports metadata from a local file or a remote URL. The underlying library supports "inline" metadata i.e. a string in the settings file. This makes it possible to follow the 12factor methodology because an environment variable can be used to provide this "inline" data.

Example

In settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS += (
    ...
    'django_saml2_auth',
    # ensure the plugin is loaded
    'django_saml2_auth_metadata_inline',
    ...
)



# this is the "usual" config object from django-saml2-auth
SAML2_AUTH = {
    'DEFAULT_NEXT_URL': '/',
    'PLUGINS': {
        # use this package in lieu of DEFAULT metadata plugin (or list both) 
        'METADATA': ['INLINE'],
    }
    # plugin looks for configuraiton here
    'METADATA_XML_STRING':  os.environ.get('SAML_CONFIG')
}