Re: [Unity-idm-discuss] change attribute value type error

[Sander A. <sa....@fz...>]

Hi Krzysztof,

thanks for the information. Copy the values with REST API is working
fin for me. Is there a possibility to get a list of all used entity ids
via REST API? I'm working on an script which copy the attribute for all
users and I want to avoid a long for loop with status code check.

Best regards,
Sander

Am Freitag, den 21.10.2016, 11:17 +0200 schrieb Krzysztof Benedyczak:
> Hi Sander,
>
> W dniu 20.10.2016 o 12:44, Sander Apweiler pisze:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to change the value type of email attribute from string into
> > verifiableEmail. When I submit the changes I got an error that at
> > least
> > one attribute is in conflict with it. The stack trace from log file
> > is
> > attached. Has anyone a hint for me?
> >
>
> Unfortunately this direction is not easy. verifiableEmail holds a
> complex information as attribute values. Usually you see only the
> sole
> email value, but it is also stored whether it was confirmed, when,
> how
> many confirmation requests were sent. Therefore simple upcasting of
> String to vEmail won't work.
>
> One approach would be to create a new verifiableEmail-type attribute
> and
> use REST API to transform. It should be also possible to create a
> JSON
> dump, tweak it and reimport, but this is really fragile operation,
> requiring good testing on a test instance...
>
> If you don't mind waiting you can open a ticket for this - we can
> implement better special handling for attribute type changes: if the
> current approach of basic type cast does not work, we can try to
> perform
> export to text representation and parse it. Of course such fallback
> can
> loose some information but should work in the typical cases.
>
> Best,
> Krzysztof


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