Concepts
A RapidIdentity Connect adapter is a pre-packaged bundle of actions that can be called from user-defined Action Sets. Unlike user-defined actions sets, a deployed adapter is not editable via the RapidIdentity Connect Module but is rather considered a built-in component of the RapidIdentity Connect server runtime.
Components
A RapidIdentity Connect adapter is made up of the following components packaged into a .jar file:
Java Implementation class(es) (optional)
Records
The primary data structure of concern in most adapters is the Record. A Record is a generic representation of an object in the system with which the adapter works. A Record is composed of named fields. Field names can be case sensitive or not, depending on a flag passed in when the Record is created. A field can have 0 or more values associated with it. A value may be of any data type, though for most purposes values are usually strings.
There are a whole set of built-in actions that create and manipulate Records within RapidIdentity Connect (category: Core | Data | Records). Records can also be treated much like standard ECMAScript objects in expressions within an Action Set as well as from within an adapter's ECMAScript implementation.
record.fieldnameorrecord[“fieldname”]when used as a value returns:
a single value if only one value exists
an array of values if more than one value exists
null if there are no values but the field is defined
undefined if the field is not defined
when used as the target of an assignment:
equivalent of
setRecordFieldValue()if value being assigned is a scalarequivalent of
setRecordFieldValues()if value being assigned is an Arrayequivalent of
clearRecordFieldValues()if value being assigned is null
equivalent of
removeRecordField()when used withdeleteoperator