[OASIS Issue Tracker] (AMQP-130) Clarify Transfer message-format field description

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Lorenz Quack commented on AMQP-130:
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Thanks for the explanation.

The original description of the issue remains valid.
Rob, I think your rewording would be more clear than the current wording in the spec.

However, the error handling is still unspecified.
I see that it cannot specify that the message should be rejected because the outcome is in a higher layer of the spec and reject might not be a supported outcome.
I would like to put forward two possible options:
A) Close the link with a precondition-failed error
B) Close the connection with a framing-error
I guess the error behaviour should be the same as on other mandatory-only-on-first-transfer fields like delivery-id/\-tag (where the error is also not specified: AMQP-128)

> Clarify Transfer message-format field description
> -------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AMQP-130
>                 URL: https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/AMQP-130
>             Project: OASIS Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) TC
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Transport
>            Reporter: Lorenz Quack
>              Labels: Clarification
>
> The AMQP specification states in section 2.7.5 [1] about the message-format field of the Transfer performative:
> This field MUST be specified for the first transfer of a multi-transfer message and can only be omitted for continuation transfers. It is an error if the message-format on a continuation transfer differs from the message-format on the first transfer of a delivery.
> There are two things I would like the specification to be more explicit about:
> * Whether the field is required on single transfer deliveries (see also AMQP-128).
> * How to handle the error condition. Do we reject the message? Detach the Link? End the Session? Close the Connection? What ErrorCondition should be used?
> [1] http://docs.oasis-open.org/amqp/core/v1.0/os/amqp-core-transport-v1.0-os.html#type-transfer



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