Agenda for OData TC meeting 2013.03.21

["Hartel, Barbara" <barbara.hartel@sap.com>]

Here [1] is a draft agenda for the OData TC (Technical Committee) meeting scheduled on Thursday March 21, 2013 during 8-10am PT. For additional information, such as dial-in details and chat room, refer to [2]. For TC timeline, see [3]. Feel free to suggest additions or modifications.

 

NOTE (attendees in Europe and from other parts of the world): Please take note of the clock change (advanced by one hour) in the US/Canada region (since March 10^th, 2013) and ensure you dial-in at the appropriate local time for the TC meeting. See Stefan’s note for details: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/odata/email/archives/201303/msg00087.html.

 

Thanks.

 

[1] Agenda for 2013.03.21 OData TC meeting

1. Roll call [8:00am PT]

 

2. Approve agenda [8:05am PT]

 

3. Approve minutes from previous meeting(s) [8:10am PT]

1. Minutes from March 14, 2013 TC meeting: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/odata/download.php/48554/odata-meeting-29_on-20130314-minutes.html

 

4. Review action items [Action item list: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/odata/members/action_items.php] [8:15am PT]

2. Action items due by March 21, 2013

1. None

3. Action items NOT due by March 21, 2013 but MAY be ready for closure

2. Any?

 

5. Process issues [Issues list: https://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&mode=hide&pid=10103] [8:20am PT]

4.   Issues in Proposed state (carried over from Feb 21, 2013 TC meeting)

3. OData JSON Format, OData Protocol

1. ODATA-283: Accept-Charset HTTP Request Header and charset content-type parameter [Open]

 

5. Issues in Proposed state (since March 14, 2013)

4. OData CSDL

2. ODATA-239 Allowing expressions to be passed as parameters to (super) functions [New]
3. ODATA-266 Strengthen the requirements for the URL Attribute in edmx:Reference and edmx:AnnotationReference [New]
4. ODATA-271 Support IsAlwaysBindable through annotation, rather than attribute of function/action [New]
5. ODATA-299 Should Duration be renamed DayTimeDuration in anticipation that we may wish to add YearMonthDuration at a later point? [New]
6. ODATA-303: Support abstract entity types without key properties [New]
7. ODATA-304: Add TargetKey attribute to <PropertyRef> within a <ReferentialConstraint> [New]
8. ODATA-305: Annotations: introduce path segment to address the count of a collection [New]

5. OData Protocol OData URL Conventions

9. ODATA-9 allow expressions in the $select query option [New]
10. ODATA-10 operator that returns the content of a Stream as either a String or Binary value [New]

6. OData Protocol

11. ODATA-262 Specify how OData services can be protected against cross-site request forgery (CSRF or XSRF) [New]
12. ODATA-297 State explicitly if Content-Length is required, and if so, for which request types it is required [New]
13. ODATA-301 Guidance around data authorization model and secure authenticated access to an OData Service [New]
14. ODATA-165 Support Cross-joins [Open]

 

6. Issues that appear to require deeper discussion

7. OData CSDL

15. ODATA-266: Strengthen the requirements for the URL Attribute in edmx:Reference and edmx:AnnotationReference [New]
16. ODATA-271: Support IsAlwaysBindable through annotation, rather than attribute of function/action [New]

 

7. Introduction to conformance levels.

 

8. Issues in Applied state (since March 7, 2013)

8. OData Protocol

17. ODATA-282: Support individual data modification statements within a batch without wrapping in a changeset
18. ODATA-243: Add client preferences for server-driven paging
19. ODATA-34: Control verbosity of $metadata response: include annotations or documentation
20. ODATA-274: OData clients should always use PATCH, deprecate PUT
21. ODATA-260: Make explicit that DELETE on an entity may implicitly change links to and from other entities

9. OData CSDL

22. ODATA-284: Annotating an Annotation
23. ODATA-267: Allow Qualifier attribute on Annotation elements within an Annotations element that does NOT specify a Qualifier attribute

10. OData ABNF Construction Rules, OData CSDL, OData Protocol

24. ODATA-244: Support navigation properties on complex types

11. OData CSDL, OData Protocol

25. ODATA-204: Define namespace versioning policy for XML namespaces

12. OData JSON Format

26. ODATA-102: 5.4.1/2 Representing Actions/Functions Bound to Multiple Entities

13. OData ABNF Construction Rules, OData Protocol, OData URL Conventions

27. ODATA-159: Handling inline attachments in requests/responses
28. ODATA-228: Specify $search for free-text search within a OData Service and specify $search for free-text search within an entityContainer
29. ODATA-280: Support cast segment in $expand
30. ODATA-281: Keep second() as integer, introduce FractionalSeconds

14. OData ABNF Construction Rules, OData URL Conventions

31. ODATA-222: free-text search within a property

15. OData URL Conventions

32. ODATA-264: Allow omitting parent key(s) in URLs to contained children

16. OData ABNF Construction Rules, OData ATOM Format, OData JSON Format, OData Protocol, OData URL Conventions

33. ODATA-276: Fix issues with entity references and rationalize with $links

 

9. Issues in Applied state (since March 14, 2013)

17. OData ABNF Construction RulesOData CSDL

34. ODATA-124 For round-tripping values, what precision must agents support for DateTime(Offset), and are leap seconds permitted?

18. OData ABNF Construction Rules OData URL Conventions

35. ODATA-232 Enhance description of normalization procedures (public comment c201301e00001)
36. ODATA-230 Support use of parameter aliases in $filter and $orderby
37.  

19. OData ABNF Construction Rules OData Protocol OData URL Conventions

38. ODATA-139 New system query option $search for free-text search within an entity set

20. OData ABNF Construction RulesOData CSDL OData Protocol OData URL Conventions

39. ODATA-279 Define URL conventions for addressing functions and function imports

21. OData Atom Format OData CSDL OData JSON Format

40. ODATA-68 Describe representation of ReferenceTypes in responses

22. OData CSDL

41. ODATA-288 Change default decimal Scale to variable
42. ODATA-277 Remove Collation attribute
43. ODATA-275 Clarify whether binding parameters for actions and functions can be nullable
44. ODATA-270 Collections of Edm.PrimitiveType are problematic in JSON
45.  

23. OData Protocol

46. ODATA-292 Questions on POST, PATCH and merge/replace semantics with related entities in composite relationships
47. ODATA-246 IDs should be dereferenceable URIs
48. ODATA-111 Define supported numeric promotions
49. ODATA-42 8.2.5 If-None-Match: clarify use of If-None-Match in data modification or action requests
50. ODATA-37 UPSERT: allow PUT and PATCH to the URL of a not yet existing entity to create this entity

24. OData JSON Format

51. ODATA-300 Valid Syntax in JSON samples

25. URL Conventions

52. ODATA-285 Section 4.7: explicitly mention which property types allow appending /$value
53.  

26. Vocabularies

54. ODATA-192 Define vocabulary term as a replacement for StoreGeneratedPattern attribute

 

6. Next meeting [9:58am PT]

10. There will be no meeting March 28, 2013. Please use the time for the document review.
11. Next meeting will be April 04, 2013 during 8-10am PT

 

7. AOB and wrap up [9:59am PT]

 

[2] References

• Conference call details: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/odata/download.php/46401/TC%20meeting%20dial-in%20details.htm
• Chat room: http://webconf.soaphub.org/conf/room/odatatc

 

[3] Timeline

https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/odata/download.php/48580/latest