Product Versioning - Policy Upgrade

Note

See the Product Versioning feature guide for a general overview of the Product Versioning feature.

Overview

When a policy is created, it is associated with a specific product version which governs its algorithms, data structure, and document templates. This feature allows you to change the version associated with a policy. For example, if you update your products with new disclosure documents, you can choose which policies to associate with the new version so that they will use those document templates when creating new policy transactions.

Note

The system will check to make sure the policy’s data structure is compatible with the target product version. If there are mismatches, such as required fields that exist in the configuration but don’t exist in the policy data, the transaction will fail.

Upon a successful upgrade operation, the system will emit a policy.upgrade event to the Event Stream.

If the operation does not succeed, the system will respond with a list of the validation errors that failed when trying to map the policy data to the new product version.

Validation

Validation checks will be performed when attempting to upgrade a policy. The validation will fail if any of the following are true:

• There are required fields in the target configuration which are not present in the policy’s data

• There are field names in the policy’s data which are not present in the target configuration

• Any data fields’ types are not compatible with those in the target configuration

• The policy has exposure names or exposures have peril names that don’t exist in the target configuration

• The policy currently is lapsed with a legacy cancellation and the target configuration enables the current cancellation process

Note

For the above checks, the policy’s data is presumed to be contained in unreplaced characteristics objects. The system will ignore replaced characteristics.

The following items are not validated, so caution should be taken when these are different in the target product definition:

• Liquid Templates

• Liquid calculation fields (taxes, fees, premium reports, etc)

• Plugin scripts

• Premium Report configurations

• Policyholder configurations

• Claim and Subclaim configurations

• Grace period, cancellation, and reinstatement configurations

Contact Socotra support if you have any questions about the safety of an upgrade operation.

API

Upgrade a policy's product version

PATCH /policy/{policyLocator}/upgrade

Request:

Name	Position	Type	Required
policyLocator	path	string	required
req	body	PolicyConfigUpgradeRequest	required

Response: PolicyConfigUpgradeResponse

PolicyConfigUpgradeRequest

required
newConfigVersion integer

PolicyConfigUpgradeResponse

required
policyLocator string
newConfigVersion integer
oldConfigVersion integer