Identity Portal javascript handler fails with "importPackage" is not defined error

Products

• CA Identity Manager
• CA Identity Governance
• CA Identity Portal

Issue/Introduction

After upgrading Identity Portal a previously working javascript handler is failing with "ReferenceError: 'importPackage' is not defined in <eval>"
 

Environment

Identity Portal 14.x

Cause

This issue is not actually caused by Identity Portal, but rather by the JVM that the Identity Portal is running against. After 14.x, Portal is only supported on Java 1.8.x.

As of Java 1.8, the javascript scripting engine has changed from Rhino to Nashorn.

Resolution

To resolve this, you'll need to add this line to the beginning of your scripts for compatibility:

load("nashorn:mozilla_compat.js");