ALFA Functions

Use functions to compare and manipulate attributes in policies. If, for instance, you want to compare the role attribute to the value 'manager', you'd use the string equality function.

There are different kinds of functions:

Higher order bag functions
Logical functions
Set functions
Bag functions
Equality predicates
Non-numeric comparison functions
Arithmetic function
Numeric comparision functions
Numeric datatype conversion function
Special match function
String conversion function
Regular-expression-based functions
String functions
Date and time arithmetic functions
XPath-based functions

ALFA comes with hundreds of functions you can use in Target or Condition elements.

Function List