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Subject: Update to CR-034 (Creating self-referencing tModels)


Title: Update to CR-034 (Creating self-referencing tModels)

I took an action item at our May 27 TC meeting to update CR-034 to meet the following requests:

"Claus took us through the description of this CR.  Tony would rather we disallow references to any tModels not already in the registry.  The problem here is that it imposes an extra check to do the saves in the registry.  A suggestion was made that we say nodes "MAY" allow (1), but now (2) or (3).  Things like service projections and hosting redirectors would be complicated as well. 

We agreed that the CR needs to be changed to get around the problem by saying that a node MAY permit (1), but MUST disallow (2) and (3).    There is also some confusion in the CR indicating the error condition as E_invalidKey.  It should be E_invalidValue, depending upon whether it's being used as the category, or as a value in the category.   Need to clarify.  Also note that the entire request may fail, saving the entities separately eliminates the problem.  A similar problem exists with hosting redirector. 

Should we create a recommended policy on which behavior the node supports?  Claus will suggest one. Claus will change the CR and resubmit."

After reviewing the CR and these requests again, I now believe that the requests lead to additional problems/questions.

1) Tony's suggestion that a node MAY disallow references to any tModels not already in the registry is not acceptable since this may result to a situtation where one node in a registry decides to allow such references and another decides to disallow them. If such data is replicated from the first node to the second, this would result in an unacceptable replication error.

As a result, two alternatives remain: either we decide that the behavior with regard to such references (allow or disallow them) MUST be specified on registry level or we decide that they are always allowed, that is, we stay with the currently specified (V3) behavior.

2) I don't recall why there was a discussion about including E_invalidValue as a possible error condition. A tModelKey in a keyedReference is always a tModelKey, and if it is invalid the E_invalidKey error condition applies. A tModelKey can certainly be used as a keyValue in a keyedReference (remember our discussion on value sets that are based on entity keys) but whether the key is valid or not is a matter of value set validation. This is specified in a separate section (5.2.3) and the corresponding error condition is already listed in section 5.2.18.5 of the save_tModel API call section.

As a result, I don't see a need to update the specification in this regard.

3) Depending on the outcome of 1), we may even don't need a corresponding policy.

I'd be interested in differing opinions so that I can update the CR, if required.

Regards,
 Claus



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