Policy enforcement refers to the automatic validation of data in the repository when it is created, updated, or patched. In certain situations you might want to disable policy enforcement temporarily. You might, for example, want to import existing data that does not meet the validation requirements with the intention of cleaning up this data at a later stage.
You can disable policy enforcement by setting
openidm.policy.enforcement.enabled to
false in the conf/boot/boot.properties
file. This setting disables policy enforcement in the back-end only, and
has no impact on direct policy validation calls to the Policy Service
(which the user interface makes to validate input fields). So, with policy
enforcement disabled, data added directly over REST is not subject to
validation, but data added with the UI is still subject to validation.
Disabling policy enforcement permanently in a production system is not recommended.
