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Common Areas to Troubleshoot
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Installation Location

Adapters are defined to be in a namespace. This is important to understand as the adapter should be in that namespace within the IAP node_modules directory. If it is installed in a directory that does not match the namespace defined in the adapter f...
Updated on : 06 Jan 2023

Dependencies for Adapter

It is important to remember that adapters have dependencies. Most of the adapter code exists in its runtime libraries. This helps to provide new capabilities and allow those capabilities to be available to all adapters. These dependencies should be ...
Updated on : 09 Nov 2022

Connectivity

The entire purpose of an adapter is to communicate with other systems. As such, it needs to have connectivity with the system it is trying to communicate with. If there are firewalls preventing the communication from the adapter to the system, the...
Updated on : 06 Jan 2023

URL Paths

Adapters need to send the request to the correct path for the other system to receive and handle the request properly. The path of a call is the part that comes after the connect information and before the ?. For example: URL - http://myservicenow...
Updated on : 09 Nov 2022

Authentication

Most systems require users to be authenticated in order to accomplish tasks within that system. System to system communication often requires similar or more stringent authentication. Thus, adapters often need to authenticate to the system they are ...
Updated on : 09 Nov 2022

Linting

All Itential built adapters as well as adapters built by the Adapter Builder include lint rules and scripts. In order to run lint, you need to make sure the adapter devDependencies have been loaded. Lint the adapter when you first install it to ma...
Updated on : 09 Nov 2022

Testing

All Itential built adapters as well as adapters built by the Adapter Builder include test scripts. In most adapters, the dependencies required to run tests are regular dependencies and not devDependencies. This is because some of the adapter scripts...
Updated on : 09 Nov 2022

Key Unit Tests

Unit tests are invaluable; they are designed to help minimize the possibility of issues when integrating with IAP or the other system. The are also used to verify that the adapter and adapter libraries are integratedd properly and returning the info...
Updated on : 09 Nov 2022

Key Integration Tests

Integration tests are designed to help minimize the possibility of issues when integrating with the other system. They are especially invaluable when you run them integrated with the other system (stub set to false). However, you will often need to ...
Updated on : 09 Nov 2022
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