There is no way to turn this flag to false

If the "ws" translator is secured through "security-domain", then authentication failure message by passes the "isSourceRequiredForMetadata" flag and returns as error, thus leaving the VDB in "metadata load failed" state.

Allow Web Services translator to retrieve metadata without source connection ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: TEIID-3899 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TEIID-3899 Project: Teiid Issue Type: Enhancement Components: Misc. Connectors Affects Versions: 8.11 Reporter: Ramesh Reddy Assignee: Ramesh Reddy Fix For: 8.13, 8.12.x The "ws" translator, is set to "isSourceRequiredForMetadata" to true. However, there are two issues 1) There is no way to turn this flag to false 2) If the "ws" translator is secured through "security-domain", then authentication failure message by passes the "isSourceRequiredForMetadata" flag and returns as error, thus leaving the VDB in "metadata load failed" state.