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Status Future consideration
Categories Integration
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 19, 2021

Support Delayed Validation in REST API setupdata

In the REST API, there is a way to perform lookups on temporary objects utilizing a request like: /maximo/oslc/os/mxwo/zombie/getlist~assetnum?lean=1&oslc.select=assetnum,description&setupdata={"location":"SHIPPING","siteid":"BEDFORD"}

The setupdata query parameter allows you to provide values for the attributes so that when the list should be filtered (such as assets in a location) the Maximo framework will apply the necessary filters.

The way this object is constructed the validate is called on each attribute immediately in the order they're defined. This causes issues when one of the attributes (such as SITEID in this case) impacts how a previous attribute (LOCATION in this case) should be validated. Similar to the MIF, we'd like this (or an alterative if this negatively impacts existing processes) to utilize delayed validation so it waits until all attributes are set prior to validating these attributes. This would ensure the application doesn't have to provide these in a pre-defined order and would make it function similar to the actual submission of the record.

Idea priority Medium