BP-124: Location Attribute Mandatory in Result Aggregation

[Luc Clément <luc.clement@activevos.com>]

Assigned: http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/BP-124

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From: Dieter Koenig1 [mailto:dieterkoenig@de.ibm.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 07:26
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Subject: [bpel4people] New Issue: Location Attribute Mandatory in Result Aggregation



Target:

WS-HumanTask CD 05 revision 02, Section 4.7.2 Declarative Result Aggregation

Description:

Section 4.7.2 defines the <aggregate> element used to combine output from multiple subtasks.
<htd:aggregate location="query" condition="bool-expr"? function= "function-call"/>

If a task interface (or an individual WSDL part, see also issue BP-123) only has one simple-typed element then the location query can be optional.
The aggregation function is then applied to this single simple-typed element. Example: an approval step which just returns a boolean value.

Proposal:

In section 4.7.2, make the @location attribute optional within the <aggregate> element:
<htd:aggregate location="query"? condition="bool-expr"? function= "function-call"/> (question mark added to @location)

In the explanation, change from:
"The mandatory location attribute MUST contain ..."
to:
"The optional location attribute MUST contain ..."

Kind Regards

Dieter König

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