Package com.thortech.xl.gc.spi

Interface ValidationProvider

public interface ValidationProvider
This interface should be implemented by a layer that incorporates data validation functionalities to be used by a connector created through the generic technology connector. An example of data validation is Maximum Length. The input data set, having data for an attribute "employeeID" could be validated using MaxLength implementation so that any data record that has the value "employeeID" and a size greater than a pre-defined length will always get rejected. 

 In the generic technology connector framework, the provisioning operation does not have any step for data validation
 to be executed by implementing this interface. The framework invokes the validation implementations
 only during reconciliation. It is executed after it obtains the Oracle Identity Manager-compliant output of appropriate
 ReconTransportProvider and ReconFormatProvider. Only validated data records are
 passed ahead for transformation.
 Examples of the implementation for this layer would be
 MaxLength, MinLength and IsInteger.
 

 All the methods of this interface throw ProviderException. The implementations of this
 interface should utilize this fact to wrap all possible exceptions ultimately in an instance
 of ProviderException.




Version:


Oracle Identity Manager 9.1


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    Method
    

    Description
    

    boolean
    

    validate(String input,
 Hashtable params,
 Hashtable utils)
    

    

    This method validates input data based on the logic defined by the relevant validation provider.
    

    

    

    

    

    

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      validate
      

      boolean validate(String input,
 Hashtable params,
 Hashtable utils)
          throws ProviderException
      

      This method validates input data based on the logic defined by the relevant validation provider.
      

      

      Parameters:
      

      input - The input candidate to be validated
      

      params - contains the input field-value pairs which are
 arguments required by this validation
      

      utils - contains the reference to factory object for obtaining an Oracle Identity Manager API Instance.
 This might be useful for those validation implementations that want to retrieve an
 Oracle Identity Manager entity value(s) for executing some business logic. For example, Encoded and Decoded value pairs
 of an Oracle Identity Manager Lookup Definition.
 
      
 Relevant Sample code:
 
      
        Iterator itr = utils.keySet().iterator();
 
      
        String key = (String) itr.next();
 
      
        TransformationSource source=(TransformationSource)utils.get(key);
 
      
        tcLookupOperationsIntf lookupIntf = (tcLookupOperationsIntf)source.getUtility("Thor.API.Operations.tcLookupOperationsIntf");
      

      Returns:
      

      Result of validation.
      

      Throws:
      

      ProviderException
      

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