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Why

Today a rule condition can only compare a field with a fixed value typed into the rule, for example application equals "My App". Upcoming conditional steps in registration and recovery flows need conditions that can only be decided at runtime, such as:

  • "the country the user entered is not the same as the country already stored for them": a field compared with another field
  • "the user's country is one of LK, IN": a field compared with a list
  • "the value of this particular claim": one field (user.claims) that holds many values, picked by a qualifier (the claim URI)

This PR adds these to the rule component (rule-mgt) without changing how existing rules are stored or evaluated.

What changes

1. Rule model (rule.management)

Change Description
Expression.fieldQualifier (new, optional) Picks one value of a field that holds many, e.g. field: user.claims, fieldQualifier: http://wso2.org/claims/country.
Value.Type.LIST + Value.fieldValues The right-hand side as a list, for the new in / notIn operators.
Value.Type.FIELD + Value.fieldReference The right-hand side as another field (FieldReference{name, qualifier}), read when the rule is evaluated.
Value constructors new Value(List<String>) creates a LIST and new Value(FieldReference) creates a FIELD. The existing new Value(Type, String) is unchanged.
Value shape checks A LIST carries only values, a FIELD carries only field, and other types can't carry either.
RuleBuilder Validates a FIELD value: the referenced field must be one the field is allowed to be compared with, it must exist, and its qualifier must be given exactly when that field needs one.
FlowType Adds REGISTRATION, PASSWORD_RECOVERY and INVITED_USER_REGISTRATION.
Rule Is now Serializable, like its subclasses.

How a condition is stored, before and after:

// Existing: unchanged, still reads and writes exactly like this
{"field": "application", "operator": "equals", "value": {"type": "STRING", "value": "My App"}}

// New: compare with a list
{"field": "user.claims", "fieldQualifier": "http://wso2.org/claims/country",
 "operator": "in", "value": {"type": "LIST", "values": ["LK", "IN"]}}

// New: compare with another field
{"field": "user.collectedClaims", "fieldQualifier": "http://wso2.org/claims/country",
 "operator": "notEquals",
 "value": {"type": "FIELD", "field": {"name": "user.claims", "qualifier": "http://wso2.org/claims/country"}}}

2. Rule metadata (rule.metadata)

  • Field.qualifier (new, optional): tells the UI that a field needs a qualifier and how to enter it (e.g. a claim picker).
  • FieldDefinition.valueFieldOptions (new, optional, ValueFieldOptions{names}): lists the other fields a field may be compared with. When it's absent, the field only accepts a typed value, exactly as today.
  • Flow-level overrides in FlowConfig now keep the qualifier and the value field options when they replace a field's display name.

3. Rule evaluation (rule.evaluation)

  • Fields are identified by name and qualifier, so two conditions on different claims of user.claims resolve to two different values. A field without a qualifier is identified by its name alone, as before.
  • FieldExtractor also asks the data providers for the fields that conditions are compared against.
  • New operators in and notIn work for a single value against a list and for a list against a list (they hold when the lists share a value).
  • A comparison where either side has no value does not hold, for every operator including the negated ones. So a missing value never passes a rule by accident.
  • New RuleEvaluationService.evaluate(Rule, FlowContext, tenantDomain) evaluates a rule that its caller holds in its own configuration, rather than one registered in rule management.

4. Configuration

  • RuleManagementConfig gets a "max expressions combined with AND" limit for each of the three new flow types.

  • identity.xml.j2 gets the matching elements. Each is rendered only when set in deployment.toml, for example:

    [rules.registration]
    max_expressions_combined_with_and = 10

    When it isn't set, the default of 5 applies.

Backward compatibility

  • Stored rules: every new member is optional and is left out of the stored JSON when unused, so existing rules read and write byte-for-byte as before. RuleSerializationCompatibilityTest pins this, including reading JSON that has unknown properties.
  • Unknown value types: stored rules are read with unknown enum constants mapped to null. A rule written by a newer node therefore fails closed on an older node instead of becoming unreadable. For the same reason the shape checks don't reject a null type.
  • Java API: existing constructors, getters and the FieldDefinition(field, operators, value) / Field(name, displayName) constructors are unchanged. Everything new is additive.

Tests

  • RuleSerializationCompatibilityTest (new): the stored form of old and new rules, tolerance of unknown properties and enum constants, and the Value shape checks.
  • RuleBuilderTest: validation of FIELD values.
  • RuleEvaluatorTest: in / notIn, field-to-field comparisons and missing values.
  • FieldExtractorTest: qualifiers and referenced fields.
  • RuleEvaluationServiceImplTest: evaluating a rule held by the caller.

When should this PR be merged

No preconditions. Existing rule consumers (actions, approval workflows, device policy) are unaffected.

Follow up actions

  • Flow management: a rule evaluation (decision) step in registration and password recovery flows that uses these rules.
  • Flow management REST API and Console: authoring these conditions.

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Walkthrough

The rule models and metadata now support qualified fields, list values, and field references. Rule management validates these values, and rule evaluation handles field comparisons and membership operators. The changes also add flow types and configuration, serialization compatibility coverage, and updates to action execution test matchers.

Changes

Rule value and evaluation changes

Layer / File(s) Summary
Rule and metadata value contracts
components/rule-mgt/org.wso2.carbon.identity.rule.management/src/main/java/.../api/model/*, components/rule-mgt/org.wso2.carbon.identity.rule.metadata/src/main/java/.../api/model/*, components/rule-mgt/org.wso2.carbon.identity.rule.management/src/main/java/.../RuleManagementDAOImpl.java, components/rule-mgt/org.wso2.carbon.identity.rule.management/src/test/java/.../RuleSerializationCompatibilityTest.java, components/rule-mgt/org.wso2.carbon.identity.rule.management/src/test/resources/testng.xml
Rule and metadata models add qualifiers, field references, LIST and FIELD values, and value-field options. Serialization handles null and unknown properties. DAO deserialization maps unknown enum values to null. Compatibility tests cover stored JSON and the new value shapes.
Rule construction and value validation
components/rule-mgt/org.wso2.carbon.identity.rule.management/src/main/java/.../RuleBuilder.java, components/rule-mgt/org.wso2.carbon.identity.rule.management/src/test/java/.../RuleBuilderTest.java, components/rule-mgt/org.wso2.carbon.identity.rule.management/src/test/resources/configs/valid-operators.json
RuleBuilder validates qualifiers, list values, and field references against field metadata and options. Tests cover valid comparisons and rejected value or qualifier combinations. The operator fixture includes in and notIn.
Qualified-field and reference evaluation
components/rule-mgt/org.wso2.carbon.identity.rule.evaluation/src/main/java/.../api/model/*, components/rule-mgt/org.wso2.carbon.identity.rule.evaluation/src/main/java/.../api/service/RuleEvaluationService.java, components/rule-mgt/org.wso2.carbon.identity.rule.evaluation/src/main/java/.../internal/service/impl/*, components/rule-mgt/org.wso2.carbon.identity.rule.evaluation/src/test/java/.../*, components/rule-mgt/org.wso2.carbon.identity.rule.evaluation/src/test/resources/configs/valid-operators.json, features/rule-mgt/.../operators.json
Field extraction and evaluation data use qualified field identities. The service can evaluate a supplied Rule. The evaluator supports field references and in/notIn membership checks. Tests cover qualified extraction, membership, field comparisons, and missing values. Operator definitions include in and notIn.
Additional flow types and limits
components/rule-mgt/org.wso2.carbon.identity.rule.evaluation/src/main/java/.../FlowType.java, components/rule-mgt/org.wso2.carbon.identity.rule.management/src/main/java/.../FlowType.java, components/rule-mgt/org.wso2.carbon.identity.rule.management/src/main/java/.../RuleManagementConfig.java, components/rule-mgt/org.wso2.carbon.identity.rule.metadata/src/main/java/.../FlowType.java, components/rule-mgt/org.wso2.carbon.identity.rule.metadata/src/main/java/.../FlowConfig.java, features/identity-core/.../identity.xml.j2
Registration, password recovery, and invited-user registration are added as flow types. Configuration resolves their expression limits, the XML template emits configured sections, and metadata overrides retain qualifiers and value-field options.

Action execution test matcher update

Layer / File(s) Summary
Rule-evaluation ID matchers
components/action-mgt/org.wso2.carbon.identity.action.execution/src/test/java/.../ActionExecutorServiceImplTest.java
Three test stubs use Mockito’s anyString() matcher for rule-evaluation IDs. The test outcomes are unchanged.


Priority: ⬇️ Low

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to c610d

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Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c610d

New rule formats affect shared approval, action, and policy decisions. Older versions cannot read rules using the new formats, which constrains rollback. Validation and qualified-value authorization for future callers also remain unconfirmed.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: Persisting qualified, LIST, or FIELD rules makes rollback to the PR base read-incompatible. The tolerant reader added here cannot protect older nodes, which lack these properties and enum constants. Affected approval, action, or policy evaluation can fail after downgrade. Upgrade sequencing, feature activation, and restoration of compatible rule data are not established by the available evidence.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The affected security-decision surface includes approval engagement, conditional action execution, and policy-resource satisfaction for tenants using the affected rules. The inspected evaluation path propagates tenant context and delegates data access to providers; it does not demonstrate direct cross-tenant access. Authorization of arbitrary qualifiers at future provider boundaries remains unproven.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The new reader converts unknown value enum constants to null, and evaluation returns false for a null type. False is not a universal denial outcome: action execution returns success without invoking the action, and workflow evaluation skips approval engagement and returns CONDITION_FAILED, whose state is true. These consumer semantics predate the PR; the new unsupported-type handling can reach them if such data is supplied. A currently reachable unprivileged source of unsupported types was not established.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Gate new-format rule authoring until all readers are compatible, and define a rollback procedure that restores compatible rule content rather than relying on the new reader's tolerance.
  • proposed — Before connecting registration or recovery consumers, establish tenant-scoped validation for caller-held rules, provider authorization for qualified values, and an explicit unsupported-rule outcome distinct from an ordinary non-match where false skips a security control.

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- Around line 57-58: Update the three `ruleEvaluationService.evaluate` stubbings
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scalar conversions, passing the list through the membership evaluation path
instead of parsing a scalar field value. Preserve existing scalar conversion
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- Line 184: Update RuleBuilder.validateListValue to reject LIST operands for
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- Around line 301-326: Update validateExpressionAndResolveValue to validate
expression.getFieldQualifier() against
fieldDefinition.getField().getQualifier(): require a nonblank qualifier for
qualified fields and reject qualifiers for unqualified fields, returning the
expression after setting a validation error when the check fails.
- Around line 245-250: Update validateFieldValue to reject FIELD comparisons
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fieldDefinition.getValue().getValueType(); preserve the existing validation flow
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🟠 Major · Wire valueFieldOptions through the shipped metadata loader. · FieldDefinition.java:33-55

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Wire valueFieldOptions through the shipped metadata loader.

FieldDefinitionConfig.load() still calls the three-argument constructor, so every shipped definition has valueFieldOptions == null. The shipped fields.json also defines only equals and notEquals, with no valueFieldOptions.

RuleBuilder accepts a FIELD value only for in or notIn, and then rejects it when the options are null. Therefore, the new field-reference capability is unavailable through shipped metadata. Parse valueFieldOptions in FieldDefinitionConfig, pass it to the four-argument constructor, and add the required options and membership operators to the intended shipped field definitions.

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// The qualifier takes part in identity: two expressions over the same field with different qualifiers
// are different values, and de-duplicating on the name alone would drop the second.

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do we need this comments. Keep the comments to a minimum and make the code self-explanatory as much as possible

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Agreed. Fixed in 00c54b5: removed the inline comments here and in RuleEvaluator / FlowConfig, and cut the Javadoc in the changed classes down to a line or two, keeping only what the code cannot say (for example, why an unknown value type fails closed).

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if (left.getValueType().equals(LIST)) {
return applyOperatorForList(operator, left.getValue(), right.getValue());

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what happens when LIST type receives equals or notEquals as operators

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For a LIST field compared with a value given in the rule, equals / notEquals keep master's meaning (the list contains / does not contain the value), and RuleBuilder already rejects a LIST value under any operator other than in / notIn. The gap was this path: comparing two fields where one holds several values, equals never held and notEquals always held. Fixed in 00c54b5: in a field comparison, in / notIn compare the two sides as sets, and any other operator with a set on either side does not hold.

* value type this node does not know, degrades to a null type rather than failing the read.
* Unknown *properties* are handled separately, by @JsonIgnoreProperties on the models.
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ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper()

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Can we maintain this at class level, instead spinning up instances per execution

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Done in 00c54b5. The DAO now holds one private static final ObjectMapper, configured once, and uses it for both reading and writing rules (the write path also created a new mapper per call).

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private static Object rightOperand(Expression expression) {

Value value = expression.getValue();

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Is there an NPE possibility, if the value is null

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Yes, for two of the three cases. Fixed in c610d1e.

  • The expression itself cannot be null here: Expression.Builder rejects an expression without a value, and stored rules are read through the same builder.
  • A field that resolved to no value (for example a claim the user does not have) threw an NPE under equals / notEquals, since both call equals on the left side. This existed on master too.
  • A null literal on a NUMBER field threw from Double.parseDouble.

evaluateExpression now returns false when either side has no value, or the value type is unknown to this node, the same rule in / notIn and field comparisons already follow. Covered by testMissingValueOnEitherSideDoesNotHold.

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@coderabbitai On the outside-diff finding about wiring valueFieldOptions through FieldDefinitionConfig: this is intentional. Field references are offered only where a metadata provider publishes them (the flow metadata provider in #8335); the static fields.json fields used by actions, workflows and device policy deliberately keep literal values only, so they are unchanged. Also, RuleBuilder accepts a FIELD value under any operator the field allows, not only in / notIn. Loading valueFieldOptions from fields.json can be added if a shipped field ever needs it.

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@ashanthamara Thanks for the clarification. I withdraw the outside-diff finding about FieldDefinitionConfig.

The static fields.json metadata intentionally does not enable field references. Metadata providers can enable field references by publishing valueFieldOptions.

I also confirmed that RuleBuilder does not restrict FIELD values to in or notIn. A FIELD value can use any operator allowed by the field, subject to field-reference validation. No change to FieldDefinitionConfig is needed for this PR.


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Learning: In wso2/carbon-identity-framework rule-mgt, field references are enabled only where a metadata provider publishes FieldDefinition.valueFieldOptions. The flow metadata provider in PR #8335 supplies these options. Static fields.json metadata used by actions, workflows, and device policy intentionally supports literal values only. The Java loader components/rule-mgt/org.wso2.carbon.identity.rule.metadata/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/identity/rule/metadata/internal/config/FieldDefinitionConfig.java therefore does not need to load valueFieldOptions unless a shipped static field requires field references.

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URL: https://github.com/wso2/carbon-identity-framework/pull/8334

Timestamp: 2026-10-12T04:11:31.064Z
Learning: In components/rule-mgt/org.wso2.carbon.identity.rule.management/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/identity/rule/management/api/util/RuleBuilder.java, FIELD values can use any operator allowed by the field, subject to field-reference validation. Only LIST values are restricted to in and notIn; those membership operators require a LIST or FIELD value.

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