[Rt-devel] Opinions on adding CF validation to REST interface

[Jesse Vincent]

On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 05:19:07PM -0800, Philip Kime wrote:
> I need to have the REST interface enforce various CF things like:
>  
> * Mandatory CFs
> * CF validation other than mandatory
> * Reject CF values for Select* fields which are not valid for the field
>  
> I have all of this working for AT and am working on adding it to RT (for
> tickets anyway). I will submit a patch when done. I wanted to get
> opinions on this though:
>  
> When creating a thing (asset, ticket etc.). The current behaviour I have
> is:
>  
> * If a mandatory CF is not present, give error and don't create.
> * If a CF isn't mandatory but a/the passed value doesn't match the
> validation string, don't update the CF but still create the object.
> * If a Select* CF has no validation string but a/the passed value
> doesn't match any of the possible values, don't update the CF but still
> create the object.
>  
> I was wondering if this was reasonable? I am in two minds about
> rejecting all creation attempts by REST which fail any of these
> criteria. The mandatory case if obvious - that's what mandatory means
> and this is really important for things like SOX audit - you simply must
> be unable to create something without the mandatory CFs. But the other
> two cases are less obvious. The GUI won't let you create these last two
> so I supose it should be consistent.

I think you've got it right and look forward to the patch

>  
> PK
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