View Your Validation Rules

Endpoint URL: {registrationDomain} /entityType.rules

Returns all the data validation rules currently configured for the specified entity type.

Refer to the Registration Error Codes section for details on error codes.

This endpoint includes the following methods:

POST

POST

API Client Permissions

The following table indicates the API clients that can (and the API clients that can't) be used to call this endpoint:

owner	access_issuer	direct_access	direct_read_access	login_client
Yes	No	No	No	No

Authentication

This endpoint supports both Basic authentication (recommended) and janrain-signed authentication.

How to Create an Authentication String

Base URL

The base URL for this endpoint is your Identity Cloud Capture domain; for example:

https://educationcenter.us- dev.janraincapture.com

Your Capture domains (also known as Registration domains) can be found in the Console on the Manage Application page:

Example

This command returns all the rules assigned to the user entity type.


curl -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: Basic c2dueXZ1czZwYzRqbTdraHIybmVxNWdzODlnYnIyZXE6d3Q0YzN1bjl3a2tjZnZ5a25xeDQ0eW5jNDc2YWZzNjg" \
  --data-urlencode type_name=user \
  https://my-app.janraincapture.com/entityType.rules

Running this command in Postman

Example Response


{
  "results": [
    {
      "attributes": [
        "/givenName"
      ],
      "description": "This is a rule to accept only English letters and have a maximum Length of 25",
      "uuid": "656670ad-ae24-43a2-8ab1-a8b070c19bb8",
      "definition": {
        "and": [
          {
            "match-all": "[a-zA-Z]*"
          },
          {
          "max-length": 25
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ],
  "stat": "ok"
}

Query Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
type_name	string	Yes	Name of the entityType.

How to Create an Authentication String

To create an authentication string, combine your API client ID, a colon (:), and your client secret into a single value. For example, if your client ID is abcdefg and your client secret is hijklmnop, that value would look like this:

abcdefg:hijklmnop

Next, take the string and base64 encode it. For example, on a Mac, you can base encode the string using this command:

echo -n "abcdefg:hijklmnop" | base64

If you’re running Microsoft Windows, you can encode the string by using a Windows PowerShell command similar to this:

[Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes("abcdefg:hijklmn"))

The resulting value (e.g., YWJjZGVmZzpoaWprbG1ub3A=) should be used in your authentication header.

If you are making API calls using Postman, select Basic Auth as your identification type, then use the client ID as the username and the client secret as the password.

Before you actually try your authentication string, make sure that your API client has the all the permissions (for example, the right to read user profile information) needed to complete the API call.

Endpoint URL: {registrationDomain} /entityType.rules

POST

Running this Command in Postman

How to Create an Authentication String

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