IsaacB.81593 (Customer) asked a question.
JSON/Object in stringSwitch expression
I'm trying to map an Okta attribute value to Cornerstone. The attribute is "Organization." In Cornerstone, this attribute is an "object" type.
It appears that I can map a set of values via a JSON literal in Profile Editor, e.g., {"id":0,"name":"xxxx","typeId":2}:
But I want to do this with a stringSwitch expression, as in
String.stringSwitch(user.department, {default JSON},"accounting",{accounting JSON})
But I get "Error in evaluating expression" in Profile editor.
Is there a way to sent JSONs in the stringSwitch expression?
Thanks
Hi @IsaacB.81593 (Customer) , Thank you for reaching out to the Okta Community!
I could not find any explicit use cases for JSON use in conjunction with the attribute mappings functions and I don't have an app integration with a sample attribute of the "object" type to test with and confirm.
That being said, just to validate the syntax structure I tested a couple of things with a generic string attribute using the following:
String.stringSwitch(user.department, '{"id":0,"name":"Default","typeId":2}', "accounting", '{"id":1,"name":"Accounting","typeId":2}')
Here are the results for a test user:
>When the user's "Department" attribute is set to something like "sales" - > output is:
"{\"id\":0,\"name\":\"Default\",\"typeId\":2}"
>When the user's "Department" attribute is set to something like "accounting" - > output is:
"{\"id\":1,\"name\":\"Accounting\",\"typeId\":2}"
I'm not sure your downstream app will parse this in the expected values, though. The String.stringSwitch function's return type will be "string". You will need to test and confirm.
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Hello Mihai. When I enclose the JSON in quotes, I get an error: "Invalid value data type for property 'Organization'" That's expected as I'm now sending a string for an Object type. Thank you.
Understood. I feared as much. Then it's safe to say that this is not supported.
Feel free to submit a Feature Enhancement request via Community > Okta Ideas, if it gains popularity, it might get implemented by the Product Team.
Regards.
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