# Validating Admission Policy — Type checking

> When a policy definition is created or updated, the validation process parses the expressions it contains and reports any syntax errors, rejecting the definition if any errors are found.

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## Knowledge

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When a policy definition is created or updated, the validation process parses the expressions it contains and reports any syntax errors, rejecting the definition if any errors are found. Afterward, the referred variables are checked for type errors, including missing fields and type confusion, against the matched types of spec.matchConstraints. The result of type checking can be retrieved from status.typeChecking. The presence of status.typeChecking indicates the completion of type checking, and an empty status.typeChecking means that no errors were detected.

For example, given the following policy definition

The status will yield the following information

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```yaml
status:
  typeChecking:
    expressionWarnings:
    - fieldRef: spec.validations[0].expression
      warning: |-
        apps/v1, Kind=Deployment: ERROR: &lt;input&gt;:1:7: undefined field 'replicas'
         | object.replicas &gt; 1
         | ......^
```

If multiple resources are matched in spec.matchConstraints, all of matched resources will be checked against. For example, the following policy definition

will have multiple types and type checking result of each type in the warning message.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```yaml
status:
  typeChecking:
    expressionWarnings:
    - fieldRef: spec.validations[0].expression
      warning: |-
        apps/v1, Kind=Deployment: ERROR: &lt;input&gt;:1:7: undefined field 'replicas'
         | object.replicas &gt; 1
         | ......^
        apps/v1, Kind=ReplicaSet: ERROR: &lt;input&gt;:1:7: undefined field 'replicas'
         | object.replicas &gt; 1
         | ......^
```

Type Checking has the following limitation …

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