Reloading mapping rules on change?

SAML for ASP.NET Core
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“ComponentSpace.Saml2” Version=“2.0.3”

We want to move our MappingRules to the database. But it would be nice if the map checked on these rules every time in case we want to dynamically add a new rule.

Is this a bad idea? The mapping rules are the core foundation of the app because that is what the claims will be. That is also what clients will request via scopes.

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Storing the mapping rules and the rest of the SAML configuration in a custom database is a good idea if this configuration may be edited on-the-fly.
Your application is responsible for communicating any changes to the mapping rules or other configuration to our component.

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ComponentSpace - 12/26/2017
Storing the mapping rules and the rest of the SAML configuration in a custom database is a good idea if this configuration may be edited on-the-fly.
Your application is responsible for communicating any changes to the mapping rules or other configuration to our component.
[/quote]

Is there a service registered that will let me manipulate the configuration on the fly? Maybe during services.AddSaml()? I read the docs for "Programmatically Specifying Configuration" but I don't see a way to update them after the fact unless I need to call services.Configure twice?
Are you guys using IOptionsSnapshot under the hood? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.extensions.options.ioptionssnapshot-1?view=aspnetcore-2.0 IE if I edit the appsettings.json will it pull the latest values from the config or are the values permanent until a restart?
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You use dependency injection to access the SAML configurations object.
For example:


using ComponentSpace.Saml2.Configuration;

public class SamlController : Controller
{
private readonly SamlConfigurations _samlConfigurations;

public SamlController(IOptions samlConfigurations)
{
_samlConfigurations = samlConfigurations.Value;
}

public async Task UpdateConfiguration()
{
var samlConfiguration = _samlConfigurations.Configurations.First();

// Access and update SAML configuration as required.
var partnerIdentityProviderConfiguration =
samlConfiguration.PartnerIdentityProviderConfigurations.Select(p => p.Name == “<a href=“https://ExampleIdentityProvider” );”=“”><a href=“https://ExampleIdentityProvider” );“=”“><a href=“https://ExampleIdentityProvider”);”>https://ExampleIdentityProvider");

partnerIdentityProviderConfiguration.MappingRules = new List()
{
new SamlMappingRule()
{
Rule = “Constant”,
Value = “test@user.com”
}
};

return new EmptyResult();
}
}