My users would like to enter a value in the NAME attribute of an entity in SQL Server Master Data Services. The valid values must contain zero to six characters. NULL is a valid value.
I have written a validation rule with a action containing a regex to ensure that the value is six or less characters (Name must contain the pattern ^.{0,6}$), but the NULL values get flagged with a "Validation Failed" status. I would like the NULL values to pass the validation test.
Is there a way to do this?
Thanks for your time. I appreciate your help.
I found the answer to my question on another site. I tested it, and it works.
Here it is:
Conditions:
If
MyAttribute contains the pattern .*
Actions:
Then
MyAttribute must contain the pattern ^.{0,6}$
Thanks
Add an "OR Name IS NULL" to the validation rule.
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I have review multiple instructions on URL-parameters which all suggest 2 approaches:
Parameters can follow / forward slashes or be specified by parameter name and then by parameter value. so either:
1) http://numbersapi.com/42
or
2) http://numbersapi.com/random?min=10&max=20
For the 2nd one, I provide parameter name and then parameter value by using the ?. I also provide multiple parameters using ampersand.
Now I have see the request below which works fine but does not fit into the rules above:
http://numbersapi.com/42?json
I understand that the requests sets 42 as a parameter but why is the ? not followed by the parameter name and just by the value. Also the ? seems to be used as an ampersand???
From Wikipedia:
Every HTTP URL conforms to the syntax of a generic URI. The URI generic syntax consists of a hierarchical sequence of five components:
URI = scheme:[//authority]path[?query][#fragment]
where the authority component divides into three subcomponents:
authority = [userinfo#]host[:port]
This is represented in a syntax diagram as:
As you can see, the ? ends the path part of the URL and starts the query part.
The query part is usually a &-separated string of name=value pairs, but it doesn't have to be, so json is a valid value for the query part.
Or, as the Wikipedia articles says it:
An optional query component preceded by a question mark (?), containing a query string of non-hierarchical data. Its syntax is not well defined, but by convention is most often a sequence of attribute–value pairs separated by a delimiter.
It is also fairly common for request processors to treat a name=value pair that is missing the = sign, as if the it was name=.
E.g. if you're writing Servlet code and call servletRequest.getParameter("json"), it would return an empty string ("") for that last URL in the question.
I want to check if an entity is part of the users input.
Example:
entities['#PRODUKT_INTENT_STOP_LIST']?.contains($variables.tmpEntity)
As you can see by this example, the value of the entity#PRODUKT_INTENT_STOP_LIST
is a variable. I put this at a condition for a node, but this is not working.
If I use a hardcoded string instead of the variable it is working fine.
entities['#PRODUKT_INTENT_STOP_LIST']?.contains('Chart') works fine
but setting $variables.tmpEntity to 'Chart' a and then ask for
entities['#PRODUKT_INTENT_STOP_LIST']?.contains($variables.tmpEntity)
is not working.
Can someone tells me what's wrong here?
Still trying to understand what you are trying to do.But if you want to check whether an entity exist in your input or not you can do it by applying condition on size of that entity.
"context":{
"size":"<?#Entity.size()?>"
}
now if size is equals to 0 then entity does not exist.
I know this is a longer way but it also tells you how many times does that entity exist in your input.
Hi I used the wrong statement.
This statement should work:
entities[PRODUKT_INTENT_STOP_LIST]?.get($variables.countEntity).value==$variables.$variables.tmpEntity
$variables.countEntity : counter to iterate thru entity array #PRODUKT_INTENT_STOP_LIST to check if an entity value is equal $variables.tmpEntity
Regards
We have a password rule that checks against user attributes. The problem is that sometimes the attribute may be a single character like 'a'. In this case any password that contains 'a' will be rejected. How is this usually handled? Length check against the attribute value?
Length check sounds great! Make sure the attribute is over 5 characters (3? 4? 6?) long and contained in the password before you reject it. It's your choice.
I'd like to create a regular expression such that when I compare the a string against an array of strings, matches are returned with the regex ignoring certain characters.
Here's one example. Consider the following array of names:
{
"Andy O'Brien",
"Bob O'Brian",
"Jim OBrien",
"Larry Oberlin"
}
If a user enters "ob", I'd like the app to apply a regex predicate to the array and all of the names in the above array would match (e.g. the ' is ignored).
I know I can run the match twice, first against each name and second against each name with the ignored chars stripped from the string. I'd rather this by done by a single regex so I don't need two passes.
Is this possible? This is for an iOS app and I'm using NSPredicate.
EDIT: clarification on use
From the initial answers I realized I wasn't clear. The example above is a specific one. I need a general solution where the array of names is a large array with diverse names and the string I am matching against is entered by the user. So I can't hard code the regex like [o]'?[b].
Also, I know how to do case-insensitive searches so don't need the answer to focus on that. Just need a solution to ignore the chars I don't want to match against.
Since you have discarded all the answers showing the ways it can be done, you are left with the answer:
NO, this cannot be done. Regex does not have an option to 'ignore' characters. Your only options are to modify the regex to match them, or to do a pass on your source text to get rid of the characters you want to ignore and then match against that. (Of course, then you may have the problem of correlating your 'cleaned' text with the actual source text.)
If I understand correctly, you want a way to match the characters "ob" 1) regardless of capitalization, and 2) regardless of whether there is an apostrophe in between them. That should be easy enough.
1) Use a case-insensitivity modifier, or use a regexp that specifies that the capital and lowercase version of the letter are both acceptable: [Oo][Bb]
2) Use the ? modifier to indicate that a character may be present either one or zero times. o'?b will match both "o'b" and "ob". If you want to include other characters that may or may not be present, you can group them with the apostrophe. For example, o['-~]?b will match "ob", "o'b", "o-b", and "o~b".
So the complete answer would be [Oo]'?[Bb].
Update: The OP asked for a solution that would cause the given character to be ignored in an arbitrary search string. You can do this by inserting '? after every character of the search string. For example, if you were given the search string oleary, you'd transform it into o'?l'?e'?a'?r'?y'?. Foolproof, though probably not optimal for performance. Note that this would match "o'leary" but also "o'lea'r'y'" if that's a concern.
In this particular case, just throw the set of characters into the middle of the regex as optional. This works specifically because you have only two characters in your match string, otherwise the regex might get a bit verbose. For example, match case-insensitive against:
o[']*b
You can add more characters to that character class in the middle to ignore them. Note that the * matches any number of characters (so O'''Brien will match) - for a single instance, change to ?:
o[']?b
You can make particular characters optional with a question mark, which means that it will match whether they're there or not, e.g:
/o\'?b/
Would match all of the above, add .+ to either side to match all other characters, and a space to denote the start of the surname:
/.+? o\'?b.+/
And use the case-insensitivity modifier to make it match regardless of capitalisation.
How can I specify blank/empty value for a text field when using the robotframework-seleniumlibrary with a TSV file? For example, I have the following:
Textfield Value Should Be identifier=name1 Chris
Textfield Value Should Be identifier=name2
I want to test that name2 is blank. I have tried leaving it blank (which returns a message about an incorrect number of arguments. I have tried "", which looks for a pair of quotes, and '' which enters a single quote, and selenium seems to look for that
You can use either a single backslash \ or special variable ${EMPTY} to create an empty string in the test data. User guide has the details: Robot Framework User Guide.
Yes, ${EMPTY} is a built in variable.
There are many examples, see an example here
${EMPTY} is good for a blank value but, surprisingly, it didn't work for an empty value.
I found what I was looking for. The field I was verifying had no value in its value attribute and I wanted to verify it. It was returning '' as the value and when using ${EMPTY} it couldn't find '''' instead. Such a minor thing but ended up solving what I needed, so it depends what you're seeking to verify.