Assign Constraints to an Attribute

Endpoint URL: {registrationDomain} /entityType.setAttributeConstraints

Description

Sets the list of constraints for an attribute. The available constraints are: required, unique, locally-unique, alphabetic, alphanumeric, unicode-letters, unicode-printable, and email-address. See this article for important information regarding the unicode-printable constraint.

Warning. This is not an additive operation, you must pass in the entire set of constraints.

Removing Constraints

Instead of removing a constraint, use this endpoint to overwrite the existing constraint with a new constraint. For example, suppose an attribute currently has the unique and required constraints, and you want to drop the required constraint. In that case, you would pass in constraints=["unique"]. Note that the constraints argument must be a valid JSON array; however you can pass in an empty array, which is the equivalent of no constraints at all.

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

Respects the API Client Allow List: Yes

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:

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:

Examples

Example Request

This command assigns the required constraint to the givenName attribute in the user entity type. Among other things, this means that users must specify their given name when registering or when editing their user profile.

curl -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: Basic c2dueXZ1czZwYzRqbTdraHIybmVxNWdzODlnYnIyZXE6d3Q0YzN1bjl3a2tjZnZ5a25xeDQ0eW5jNDc2YWZzNjg"\
  --data-urlencode type_name=user \
  --data-urlencode attribute_name=givenName \
  --data-urlencode constraints=["required"] \
  https://my-app.janraincapture.com/entityType.setAttributeConstraints
          

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Example Response

{
  "schema": {
    "attr_defs": [
      {
        "name": "id",
        "description": "simple identifier for this entity",
        "type": "id"
      },
      {
        "name": "uuid",
        "description": "globally unique identifier for this entity",
        "type": "uuid"
      },
      {
        "name": "created",
        "description": "when this entity was created",
        "type": "dateTime"
      },
      {
        "name": "lastUpdated",
        "description": "when this entity was last updated",
        "type": "dateTime"
      },
      {
      "length": null,
        "name": "aboutMe",
        "type": "string",
        "case-sensitive": false
      },
      {
        "length": 1000,
        "constraints": [
          "required"
        ],
        "name": "givenName",
        "type": "string",
        "case-sensitive": false
      },
      {
        "name": "lastLogin",
        "type": "dateTime"
      }
    ],
    "name": "user"
  },
  "stat": "ok"
}
          

Query Parameters

abcdefg:hijklmnop

echo -n "abcdefg:hijklmnop" | base64

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