Snaps and Reports

During the meeting this week, it was requested that Snaps and Reports be unified. The subject of compound reports was also broached. I have addressed the second of these in last night’s WIP. Now as to the first.

I am using code to generate report artifacts, and stopping periodically (half done) to check my work. The artifact below, before I had generated any Intervals, bubbled up. The Intervals collection is currently mandatory (it is a stream) but it may have 0 intervals. The artifact below could have an option “immediate value” to go alongside the empty “<strm:intervals/>”, and if so, reports and snaps would be the same object.

Requests are still different. There are many aspects of reporting that I do not require if I am requesting a snap. But the element returned could be the same.

Comments?

<eitc:eiReport xmlns:eip="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/energyinterop/201110/payloads" xmlns:xcal="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:icalendar-2.0" xmlns:strm="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:icalendar-2.0:stream" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:power="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/emix/2011/06/power" xmlns:eitc="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/energyinterop/201110" xmlns:si="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/emix/2011/06/siscale" xmlns:emix="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/emix/2011/06">
                <strm:intervals/>
                <eitc:reportID>**reportID*</eitc:reportID>
                <eitc:reportDescription>
                                <eitc:reportType/>
                </eitc:reportDescription>
                <eitc:reportRequestID>idThatRequestedMe</eitc:reportRequestID>
                <eitc:reportSpecifierID>idOfSpecification</eitc:reportSpecifierID>
                <eitc:reportName>optional free-form report name</eitc:reportName>
                <eitc:createdDateTime>2012-05-21T05:00:00</eitc:createdDateTime>
                <power:energyReal>
                                <power:itemDescription>RealEnergy</power:itemDescription>
                                <power:itemUnits>Wh</power:itemUnits>
                                <si:siScaleCode>M</si:siScaleCode>
                </power:energyReal>
</eitc:eiReport>

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