Cloud Rule Validation

We’re working on developing an AttributeGenerator rule for a unique samAccountName calculation. We’ve run the “Rule Validator” against it with no issues and submitted it twice for “review/deployment” but both times came back with “Failed due to syntax error” with basically just a vague line number reference that isn’t very helpful (i.e. this particular line appears fine).

Curious if anyone has recommendations for checking rules for syntax type issues?

  • Online validator
  • Downloadable validator
  • Validation with IIQ
  • etc.

When I’m writing rules for IdentityNow I use jshell a lot as a sanity check or mini proof of concept. It can be painful at times to translate back and forth from Beanshell to Java, but it’s a handy validator.

If you have access to a sandbox instance of IIQ, you can usually translate rules to run in an IIQ context and test them on an iiq console. I do that a lot too. That’s not perfect either, but it helps to increase the confidence level before submitted cloud rules for review/deployment.

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@briane_bullock - I was able to work with our IIQ team and they were able to make a couple of minor changes to the rule to at least confirm the syntax and basic functionality so thank you for confirming that option. Not great - but somewhat workable.