Sandbox Identities
Array's API sandbox contains a number of fictitious customer identities that you can use when you're testing your application. While these identities don't map to actual people, they're not entirely fake: They're created by the "authentication providers" (currently, the credit bureaus). This means that...
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When you authenticate a sandbox identity (through the Retrieve Authentication Questions and Answer Authentication Questions operations), the questions are retrieved from and answers submitted to an actual authentication provider.
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When you retrieve a credit report for a sandbox identity, you're retrieving real credit report data from a credit bureau -- you're not getting a canned response from Array.
As described in the Retrieve Authentication Questions API, authenticating a sandbox identity isn't a billable event.
Identities
The JSON objects shown below describe the fictitious identities that are defined by the various credit bureaus. To create a User object for an identity, replace <yourAppKey>
with your actual app key, and then pass the JSON object as the request body of a Create a User call.
{
"appKey": "<yourAppKey>",
"firstName": "Thomas",
"lastName": "Friedman",
"ssn": "666234390",
"dob": "1975-01-01",
"address": {
"state": "CO",
"street": "535 30 RD A",
"city": "Grand Junction",
"zip": "81504"
}
}
{
"appKey": "<yourAppKey>",
"firstName": "Kimberly",
"lastName": "Olstrup",
"address": {
"street": "125 W 100 N",
"city": "Jerome",
"state": "ID",
"zip": "83338"
},
"dob": "1947-01-01",
"ssn": "666561858"
}
{
"appKey": "<yourAppKey>",
"firstName": "Gideon",
"lastName": "Dye",
"address": {
"street": "17255 Mayfield Dr",
"city": "Macomb",
"state": "MI",
"zip": "48042"
},
"dob": "1957-09-01",
"ssn": "563694975"
}
{
"appKey": "<yourAppKey>",
"firstName": "Thomas",
"lastName": "Devos",
"address": {
"street": "110 Beer Creek",
"city": "Tuscaloosa",
"state": "AL",
"zip": "35405"
},
"dob": "1957-09-06",
"ssn": "666023511"
}
{
"appKey": "<yourAppKey>",
"firstName": "Maria",
"lastName": "Iglesias",
"address": {
"street": "21 Pacific St",
"city": "Pittsfield",
"state": "MA",
"zip": "01201"
},
"dob": "1958-12-28",
"ssn": "666824123"
}
{
"appKey": "<yourAppKey>",
"firstName": "Denise",
"lastName": "Hennessy",
"address": {
"street": "80 Grassy Plain St",
"city": "Bethel",
"state": "CT",
"zip": "06801"
},
"dob": "1967-03-05",
"ssn": "666662921"
}
{
"appKey": "<yourAppKey>",
"firstName": "Gertrude",
"lastName": "Harkenreadeo",
"address": {
"street": "305 Linden Av",
"city": "Atlanta",
"state": "GA",
"zip": "30316"
},
"dob": "1967-06-08",
"ssn": "666066112"
}
Authentication Answers
You authenticate a User object that's created from a sandbox identity in the same way that you authenticate a real customer: By invoking Retrieve Authentication Questions and then Answer Authentication Questions. The former generates a multiple choice quiz based on information in the customer's credit report; the latter lets you submit the customer's answers to the quiz.
If you're running a test program that uses a sandbox identity, you have to select the answers yourself...but how do you answer "Which of these streets have you lived on?" for a fictitious person? You provide the answer by consulting the list, below. If you're offered one of these answers in the set of multiple choice options for a question, choose it. If none of the correct answers appears, choose "None of the above" or similar evasive reply.
- $200 - $249
- $385 - $484
- ASI Medical
- Carroll County Bank &
- Great Financial SVC
- IEC
- KIA Sorento
- Lynn Lee Const Co In
- New Hampshire
- Sallie Mae Servicing
- The Toronto-Dominion Bank
- Toyota Highlander
- Volkswagen Passat
- Wells Fargo & Company
Updated about 2 months ago