Agenda for OData TC meeting 2013.05.30

["Ram Jeyaraman (MS OPEN TECH)" <Ram.Jeyaraman@microsoft.com>]

Here [1] is a draft agenda for the OData TC (Technical Committee) meeting scheduled on Thursday May 30, 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.

  

[1] Agenda for 2013.05.30 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]

a.       Minutes from May 23, 2013 TC meeting: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/odata/download.php/49325/odata-meeting-38_on-20130523-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]

a.       Action items due by May 30, 2013

                                                         i.            None

b.      Action items NOT due by May 30, 2013 but MAY be ready for closure

                                                         i.            Any?

 

5.       Preparing towards Committee Specification Draft 02

a.       Reminder – as discussed earlier, please file significant technical issues by June 2^nd.

 

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

 

a.       Issues in Proposed state (may need deeper discussion) (carried over from May 9, 2013)

                                                               i.      OData Protocol

1.       ODATA-262: Specify how OData services can be protected against cross-site request forgery (CSRF or XSRF) [Open]

                                                             ii.      OData Protocol, OData URL Conventions

1.       ODATA-314: CLONE - Please clarify the meaning of filter functions applied to DateTimeOffset values [Open]

                                                            iii.      OData JSON Format

1.       ODATA-316: Allow omitting properties with null or default values from responses [Open]

 

e.      Issues in Proposed state since May 23, 2013

                                                         i.            Vocabularies

1.       ODATA-410: Consider moving terms OptimisticConcurrencyControl and AcceptableMediaTypes from Core to Capabilities

                                                       ii.            OData CSDL

1.       ODATA-411: Reconsider placement and semantics of OnDelete element

2.       ODATA-287: Consider adding a primitive type that corresponds with JSR 310 (JDK 1.8 time API) ZonedDateTime

                                                      iii.            OData ATOM Format, OData JSON Format, OData Protocol

1.       ODATA-412: Consistent representation of empty values

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

1.       ODATA-414: Fix syntax for deleting links to support containment

 

f.        Issues in Applied state

1.       ODATA-401: Replace "substringof" canonical function with "contains"

2.       ODATA-400: Allow JSON values also in common expressions, not only in parameter aliases

3.       ODATA-398: Define canonical function as a path segment that allows retrieving an entity by its id

4.       ODATA-394: ODATA-228
Introduce path segment /$all for search on service and entity container level

5.       ODATA-393: ODATA-375
Allow querying collections of primitive type instances similar to other collections

6.       ODATA-165: Support Cross-joins

7.       ODATA-407: Navigation Properties in Complex Types (public comment c201305e00012)

8.       ODATA-389: JSON: use odata.kind values "Entity" and "deletedEntity", Atom: use metadata:link and metadata:deleted-link

9.       ODATA-388: Remove "when" from OData-specific items in delta responses

10.   ODATA-384: Normative text needs to be typographically distinct from examples

11.   ODATA-383: Number all examples in all documents

12.   ODATA-380: Insert a section in protocol (and similar in JSON and ATOM) named 'Security Considerations' (before 'Conformance')

13.   ODATA-379: Ensure consistency and clear description in specification of $count for 'Delta Responses' (public comment c201305e00000)

14.   ODATA-378: Support relative IRIs for ids in JSON

15.   ODATA-351: Define ID, ReadLink and EditLink in Part 1: Protocol, define representation in Atom and JSON

16.   ODATA-346: Order of child elements of <edm:Collection> MUST be preserved

17.   ODATA-153: Atom: Add examples for all request and response types using a consistent sample OData service

18.   ODATA-102: Representing Actions/Functions Bound to Multiple Entities

19.   ODATA-406: Attribute ContainsTarget (public comment c201305e00009)

20.   ODATA-397: Lazy loading of Annotations: Add optional Attribute "TargetNamespace" to edmx:IncludeAnnotations element

21.   ODATA-396: Partner attribute of edm:NavigationProperty is a property path, not a SimpleIdentifier

22.   ODATA-395: Simplify rule for implicit values of enumeration members

23.   ODATA-387: Replace (at least) the second example in Section 13 of the CSDL document (public comment c201305e00002)

24.   ODATA-373: Add boolean expressions that can be used in <edm:If>

25.   ODATA-370: Disallow Nullable facet for collection-valued properties

26.   ODATA-365: Rename edm:AssertType to edm:Cast and clarify behavior of edm:Cast and cast()

27.   ODATA-364: Explicitly state that the restriction that a property MUST NOT have the same name as its containing type only applies to directly declared properties

28.   ODATA-126: Metadata as an OData service

29.   ODATA-390: Additional description of use of GeoJSON in OData JSON.

30.   ODATA-376: Navigation link representation for navigation properties of complex type instances

31.   ODATA-152: JSON: Add examples for all request and response types using a consistent sample OData service

32.   ODATA-409: 11.3.3.1 conflicts with conformance for intermediate and advanced OData

33.   ODATA-408: 11.2.3 OData services MAY/SHOULD/MUST expose their data model

34.   ODATA-403: Mechanism to advertise conformance level of OData services

35.   ODATA-402: Require services to support $expand on navigation properties

36.   ODATA-399: Describe expected life cycle management of next-links inside 11.2.4.7 Server-Driven Paging

37.   ODATA-385: Overview wording suggestion

38.   ODATA-371: Clearly describe behavior of PUT for structural and navigation properties

39.   ODATA-369: POST to navigation link with binding information leading to a different "parent" is invalid

40.   ODATA-368: Deep insert: if server responds with 201 Created it MUST respond with at least the expansion depth of the insert operation

41.   ODATA-367: Explicitly state that server MAY expand results beyond what's requested with $expand

42.   ODATA-366: Clarify whether server-generated properties can be omitted in POST, even if they are not nullable

43.   ODATA-295: Services should be able to "advertise" what form of change tracking they support

44.   ODATA-290: Check the use of SHOULD vs. MUST in Protocol spec

45.   ODATA-392: Expanded Navigation Properties should be implicitly added to $select

46.   ODATA-375: Allow querying collections of complex type instances similar to querying collections of entities

47.   ODATA-404: Make Capabilities vocabulary a part of OData 4.0

 

6.       Next meetings [9:58am PT]

a.       June 6, 2013 8-10am PT?

b.      June 13-14, 2013 5^th face-to-face TC meeting Redmond, WA: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/odata/event.php?event_id=34201

 

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/committees/download.php/49178/TC%20Timeline%205.htm