Merge branch 'master' of github.com:rohe/pysaml2

Author: Roland Hedberg

src/saml2/assertion.py

@@ -1,20 +1,19 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+import copy
 import importlib
 import logging
-
 import re
-from saml2.saml import NAME_FORMAT_URI
 import six
-from saml2 import xmlenc
 
 from saml2 import saml
-
-from saml2.time_util import instant, in_a_while
+from saml2 import xmlenc
 from saml2.attribute_converter import from_local, get_local_name
-from saml2.s_utils import sid, MissingValue
-from saml2.s_utils import factory
 from saml2.s_utils import assertion_factory
+from saml2.s_utils import factory
+from saml2.s_utils import sid, MissingValue
+from saml2.saml import NAME_FORMAT_URI
+from saml2.time_util import instant, in_a_while
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -332,7 +331,7 @@ def compile(self, restrictions):
             a compiled regular expression.
         """
 
-        self._restrictions = restrictions.copy()
+        self._restrictions = copy.deepcopy(restrictions)
 
         for who, spec in self._restrictions.items():
             if spec is None:

src/saml2/mdstore.py

@@ -850,6 +850,8 @@ def load(self, *args, **kwargs):
             kwargs.update(_args)
             _md = InMemoryMetaData(self.attrc, args[1])
         elif typ == "remote":
+            if "url" not in kwargs:
+                raise ValueError("Remote metadata must be structured as a dict containing the key 'url'")
             key = kwargs["url"]
             for _key in ["node_name", "check_validity"]:
                 try: