[OASIS Issue Tracker] (OSLCCORE-44) oslc:instanceShape should explicitly allow multiple values

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David Honey commented on OSLCCORE-44:
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Looking at Core 2.0, it seems that for a service, a creation factory supports zero-or-many for oslc:resourceShape, but zero-or-one for a query capability. That seems inconsistent to me. The "Creating an OSLC Defined Resource" section says:"A client can learn what properties are allowed in a new OSLC Defined Resource via the OSLC specification that defines or, in some cases via a Resource Shape resource.". This implies zero-or-one. I suspect we have existing implementations that assume a resource can only have one oslc:resourceShape.

I can see advantages of allowing multiple shapes. Some of the shape may be static and can be shared across multiple instances of resources. A resource that operates in multiple domains can reference multiple standard shapes. In that way, the dynamic content only needs to provide a delta.

However, multiple shapes may pose compatibility issues with existing clients consuming OSLC 2.0.

> oslc:instanceShape should explicitly allow multiple values
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>
>                 Key: OSLCCORE-44
>                 URL: https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/OSLCCORE-44
>             Project: OASIS OSLC Lifecycle Integration Core (OSLC Core) TC
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Martin Pain
>            Assignee: James Amsden
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> With a quick look on both Core 2.0 and the W3C member submission for Resource Shapes, it looks like neither mention whether a client can expect zero-or-one or zero-or-many instanceShape links from a resource.
> I would expect zero-or-many. As I can't see any problem with an instance having the properties from multiple shapes. This would help with the question about vendor-specific shapes raised on OSLCCORE-25 - as then the resources can include a link to both the vendor-specific shape and the OSLC TC-minted-URI for the a shape as defined in the spec.
> In v3.0 I think we should clarify this to state that a resource can specify zero or more instance shapes. (If we don't already & I missed it).



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