Naming and Identifying OAA Entities

Setting unique identifiers and human-readable names using OAA templates

Veza requires each entity to have a unique identifier, used within the template to reference entities (which groups a user is a member of) and for Veza to use to track and display the entity. This is true for both the Application and IdP templates

By default the templates use the name field for this purpose. However, names are not unique within some applications. In this case the templates offer an optional id as a unique identifier, allowing name to function as a non-unique display name.

Custom Application

Local User, Local Group and Local Role have an optional value id that can be provided for each entity that serves as the unique identifier.

• To use id all Local Users, Local Groups and Local Roles must be defined with an ID. The name and id can be the same value as long it is unique for the entity type. For example a local role can have admin for both the name and id.

• The id value becomes the key for referencing local users, groups and roles in the identity_to_permissions section of the payload and for referencing group memberships.

Using ids for mapping, instead of name is recommended in most cases, especially if any of the following are true:

• Entity names aren't unique in the application (if two users can have the name "Joe Doe" but each have a unique user id such as email or login or the applications unique id).

• The API references users, resources, and other entities by an ID instead of name. Using the same ID for the OAA payload will limit scenarios where you need to maintain a mapping of id to name in your connector.

For Custom Application to use id for Local Users, Groups and Roles all entities must use the id field. To use the id field for Resources all Resources and Sub-Resources must have an id

Resources

Resources and Sub-resource each can have an optional id value. When provided, the resource name does not need to be unique. To use id, all resources and sub-resources must be defined with a unique ID. The id value will be used to assign resource permissions in identity_to_permissions.

Custom IdP

Custom IdP also supports a optional unique identifier value identity for Users and Groups. If not used, the entity name must be unique and will be the primary identifier.