Allow Integration Developers to Test Connections

The adapter developer can implement the test connection functionality in the adapter definition document so that the integration developers can test the connections.

To validate a connection configuration, call a working API on the target system to validate the connection and security configuration. Oracle recommends to choose an API that has no business impact so that the test action doesn't have any business and technical implications. Reasons for a test connection failure can include:

• Instance is not reachable.
• Security information is insufficient to authenticate or obtain tokens.
• The acquired tokens are insufficient to access a given resource or are forbidden.

Managed security policies automatically inherit the validation built into the managed security policies. For example, for OAuth security policy, the relevant tokens are acquired and refreshed. You must ensure that while calling idempotent APIs, you must provide additional information to call for further validation and assert the calls.