[odata] Agenda for OData TC meeting on 2015-09-03

["Handl, Ralf" <ralf.handl@sap.com>]

Here [1] is a draft agenda for the OData TC (Technical Committee) meeting scheduled on Thursday September 03, 2015 during 8-10am PDT (17:00-19:00 CEST). 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.

 

Thanks.

 

[1] Agenda

 

1.        Roll call [8:00am PT]

a.     Self-registration link: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/odata/event.php?event_id=39114

 

2.        Approve agenda [8:05am PT]

 

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

a.     Minutes from July 16, 2015 TC meeting: https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/56122/odata-meeting-102_on-20150716-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

                                  i.    None

 

5.        Planning of next steps

a.     Data Aggregation CSD03 public review

                                  i.    Started on 28 August 2015 00:00 UTC

                                 ii.    Ends on 11 September 2015 23:59 UTC

                                iii.    No comments so far on mailing list https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/odata-comment/

 

b.    Temporal CSD01

                                  i.    Work on final document delayed

                                 ii.    Proposal: postpone to March 2016

 

c.     JSON Format for CSDL 4.0 and OData Version 4.01

                                  i.     Document Organization

1.     Split Part 3 CSDL into “Concept” and “XML” (see ODATA-743)

a.     Problem: hard to give examples without being format-specific

b.    Danger of redundancy

2.     Merge JSON CSDL into Part 3

a.     Problem: size of document

3.     Option: split off “Metadata Service” into own document, mainly interesting for “update metadata” use cases

a.     Mitigates size problem

 

d.    JSON Format for CSDL 4.0

                                  i.    How to finalize the document?

1.     Create issue for each gap or area of concern, e.g. primitive type mapping, nullability, enumerations, …

2.     Add concrete proposals

3.     Discuss issues in [Proposed] state in TC

 

e.     OData Version 4.01

                                  i.    How to attack the so far 45 issues?

1.     Discuss issues in [Proposed] state: currently 18 issues

2.     Add concrete proposals to remaining 27 issues, then discuss them in TC call: volunteers needed for adding proposals

 

6.        Process issues [Issues list: https://issues.oasis-open.org/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20ODATA] [8:20am PT]

a.     Issues for V4.01_WD01 in New or Open state

                                  i.    OData Batch Processing Format

1.     ODATA-480 $batch: remove restriction "within the same change set " for Content-ID referencing

 

                                 ii.    OData CSDL

1.     ODATA-674 Specify navigation property binding combined with containment

2.     ODATA-557 Allow exponential notation for Edm.Decimal

3.     ODATA-747 Allow IEEE 754 constants [-]INF and NaN also for Edm.Decimal

4.     ODATA-516 Add super type Edm.AnyPath for Edm.PropertyPath, Edm.NavigationPropertyPath, and Edm.AnnotationPath

5.     ODATA-560 Allow arbitrary properties in referential constraints

6.      

 

                                iii.    OData JSON Format

1.     ODATA-561 odata.type shouldn't require "#"

2.     ODATA-630 Consider making odata the default namespace for annotations

3.     ODATA-814 Don't need TargetId in a deleted link for a to 0..1 relationship

 

                                iv.    OData Protocol

1.     ODATA-809 Define non-message format for final response of async request

2.     ODATA-812 Allow omitting namespaces for unambiguous functions/actions

3.     ODATA-824 Header Content-Transfer-Encoding not used in HTTP

4.     ODATA-827 introduce $compute query option

 

                                 v.    OData URL Conventions

1.     ODATA-836 Allow applying actions to a filtered collection of entities

2.     ODATA-572 Clarify that eq, ne can be used with complex type

3.     ODATA-834 Make type prefix optional for enumeration literals in URLs

 

                                vi.    OData Vocabularies

1.     ODATA-696 Support "interfaces" for casting entities to multiple different types

 

b.    Issues for V4.0_ERRATA03 in New or Open state

                                  i.    OData CSDL

1.     ODATA-825 AnnotationPath and Path _expression_: traversal of multiple collection-valued scalar or navigation properties

 

                                 ii.    OData JSON Format

1.     ODATA-828 Update I-JSON reference

 

                                iii.    OData Protocol

1.     ODATA-830 Header OData-EntityId: when required

2.     ODATA-837 Example 28: replace $deltaToken with a valid custom query option

 

                                iv.    OData URL Conventions

1.     ODATA-835 5.1: PATCH missing in list of operations that do not allow system query options

 

7.        Next meeting [9:50am PT]

a.     Thursday September 10, 2015 during 8-10am PT?

 

8.        AOB and wrap up [9:55am 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/document.php?document_id=56024&wg_abbrev=odata