Script Triggers

Scripts can be triggered in different places, and by different events. The following list indicates the configuration files in which scripts can be referenced, the events upon which the scripts can be triggered and the actual scripts that can be triggered on each of these files.

Scripts called in mappings

Triggered by situation

onCreate, onUpdate, onDelete, onLink, onUnlink

Object filter

validSource, validTarget

Triggered when correlating objects

correlationQuery, correlationScript

Triggered on any reconciliation

result

Scripts inside properties

condition, transform

sync.json supports only one script per hook. If multiple scripts are defined for the same hook, only the last one is kept.

Scripts inside policies

condition

Within a synchronization policy, you can use a condition script to apply different policies based on the link type, for example:

"condition" : {
  "type" : "text/javascript",
  "source" : "linkQualifier == \"user\""
}

Scripts called in the managed object configuration (conf/managed.json) file

onCreate, onRead, onUpdate, onDelete, onValidate, onRetrieve, onStore, onSync, postCreate, postUpdate, and postDelete

managed.json supports only one script per hook. If multiple scripts are defined for the same hook, only the last one is kept.

Scripts called in the router configuration (conf/router.json) file

onRequest, onResponse, onFailure

router.json supports multiple scripts per hook.