Bugs
Foreign Multivalued Group Transformation reports "Value cannot be null" for multivalued attribute with no members
Please see attached Broker configuration. The "MIM LMS Group Users" connector generates records for groups, with a multivalued field "PersonNumbers" that is then used by the "MIM LMS Person" adapter in a Foreign Multivalued Group Transformation to generate the DNs of the groups each user is a member of. When a group has no members, running an Import All on the connector causes a "Value cannot be null" error to be logged. If I change the source data to not include any groups with no PersonNumbers data then the error does not occur
As a workaround, I've inserted a dummy value into blank PersonNumbers field values as shown here:
I tried to replicate this issue in a simpler Broker instance, but I could not sorry.
Answer
Here's the original PS connector code (bottom of the import script) which populates PersonNumbers field with no values and demonstrates the problem:
Hi guys, this is 3 months old now. Any word on an investigation or a fix?
Hi Adrian
Sorry for the delayed response.
I was unable to reproduce this issue based on the description you provided. In attempting to do so I tried the following:
- Setting the multi-value field to null:
$entity['PersonNumbers'] = $null; - Setting the multi-value field to an empty array:
$entity['PersonNumbers'] = @(); - Not setting the multi-value field in the connector import script at all
I was able to produce the same error message you were seeing by setting the multi-value field to an array containing a null value: $entity['PersonNumbers'] = @($null);
Ensure that the multi-value field is being assigned either an array containing zero or more non-null values, $null or isn't assigned at all.
Thanks Beau, I appreciate the investigation. I'll see if I can get time allocated to logon to the customer's site and check it out and see if that's what's going on.
Closing this one as it wasn't reproducible and no further information provided. Feel free to re-open if further information arises, or the problem resurfaces elsewhere.
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Closing this one as it wasn't reproducible and no further information provided. Feel free to re-open if further information arises, or the problem resurfaces elsewhere.