Agenda for OData TC meeting 2016-05-19

Here [1] is the agenda for the OData TC (Technical Committee) meeting
scheduled on Thursday May 19, 2016 during 8-10am Pacific Time. 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

 

Roll call [8:00am] 

Self-registration link: 
https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/odata/event.php?event_id=41463     

 

Approve agenda [8:05am]

 

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

Minutes from May 5, 2016 TC meeting: TBD

Minutes from May 12, 2016 TC meeting: TBD

 

Review action items [Action item list:

https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/odata/members/action_items.php] [8:15am]

Action items due 

                                                   
i.     #0035:

Identify the right open source license for the OASIS Open Source repositories for vocabularies and libraries (due March 31, 2016)

 

V4.0 Errata 3 [8:20am]

Public review comment resolution log

                                                   
i.     https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/odata/201605/msg00033.html

b.     
Next step

                                                   
i.     Approve Errata 3 docs as Approved Errata

c.     
Sample approval motions (needs Full Majority vote)

                                                   
i.     I move that the TC approve OData version 4.0 Errata 03 Working Draft 02 and all associated artifacts packaged together in
<link to ZIP file> as an Approved Errata and make it available with OData version 4.0 OASIS Standard. Further, I confirm that the errata corrections do not constitute Substantive Changes to the Standard.

                                                  
ii.     I move that the TC approve OData JSON Format version 4.0 Errata 03 Working Draft 02 and all associated artifacts packaged together in
<link to ZIP file> as an Approved Errata and make it available with OData JSON Format version 4.0 OASIS Standard. Further, I confirm that the errata corrections do not constitute Substantive Changes to the Standard.

 

V4.01 issues [8:40am] 

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

                                                    
i.          Simplified Payload

1.     
ODATA-818  
 Omit properties whose value is null or the $metadata-defined default value 

2.     
ODATA-809  
 Define non-message format for final response of async request 

                                                  
ii.           Complex Types

1.     
ODATA-560 - Allow arbitrary properties in referential constraints

                                                 
iii.           OData protocol

1.     
ODATA-937: Consider making odata- prefix optional in headers, preference values, format parameters

2.     
ODATA-919 Specify the result type for each operation based on operator types

3.     
ODATA-846: Add version 4.01 (resolve as we get close to CSD01)

                                                 
iv.           Batch

1.     
ODATA-541 - Allow the If-Match header to reference the ETag that resulted from an earlier operation in a batch request

                                                  
v.          Annotations

1.     
ODATA-516 - Add super type Edm.AnyPath for Edm.PropertyPath, Edm.NavigationPropertyPath, and Edm.AnnotationPath

2.     
ODATA-545 - Allow applying Capability terms CountRestrictions, TopSupported, SkipSupported etc. to all resources returning collections

3.     
ODATA-571 - Add annotation for properties that are (not) part of the default selection if no $select is specified

4.     
ODATA-631 - Allow expressing that a term can be applied any collection and is not restricted to entity sets

5.     
ODATA-735 - Enhance the CSDL for instance annotations

6.     
ODATA-811 - Define propagation and (partial) overriding of annotations

7.     
ODATA-816 - Add Capability term for filter _expression_ restrictions

8.     
ODATA-859 - Define term, semantics for inserting error information into a (mostly) successful
 response

9.     
ODATA-884 - Add term ErrorCodes to describe possible codes in error messages (public comment
 c201510e00019)

                                                 
vi.           New Query Capabilities

1.     
ODATA-614 Allow $expand, $select, ... with POST/PATCH/PUT in combination with return=representation to specify the response shape

2.     
ODATA-827 introduce $compute query option

3.     
ODATA-798 - Semantic Key or Alternate Key for entity types

                                               
vii.           Enumerations

1.     
ODATA-849 Add possibility for enumeration types to "extend" another enumeration type

2.     
ODATA-494 Define inheritance for enumeration types

3.     
ODATA-874 Allow Edm.String as underlying type for enumeration types

                                              
viii.          OData CSDL

1.     
ODATA-923:
$expand for $metadata to include referenced schemas

2.     
ODATA-618: Allow using term names in positions that allow type names

3.     
ODATA-929: Nullable facet should default to false for collection types, rather than being unspecified

4.     
ODATA-674:
Specify navigation property binding combined with containment *

5.     
ODATA-935: Allow singletons to be members of an entity set

                                                 
ix.          JSON Format

1.     
ODATA-868 - Describe format for In-Stream errors

2.     
ODATA-938: In 4.01 decide if we can support invoking actions with no params with no body

                                                  
x.          Decimal

1.     
ODATA-557 - Allow exponential notation for Edm.Decimal

                                                  
ii.          URL Conventions

1.     
ODATA-933: Allow using instance annotations in $filter

                                                 
iii.          Interfaces

1.     
ODATA-619: Attach action and function signatures to terms, i.e. make a term definition an interface definition

2.     
ODATA-696: Support "interfaces" for casting entities to multiple different types

                                                 
iv.          Set operations

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

 

Data aggregation [9:30am]

a.     
Hierarchy discussion 

b.     
Issues

                                              
i.          ODATA-905 Example 67: result row for USA, Sugar missing, Example 68: last total
 should be 7

                                             
ii.          ODATA-904 Example 55: clarify groupby in combination with relationships of
 instance cardinality zero

                                            
iii.          ODATA-909 ABNF for pathPrefix should also allow qualified ComplexTypeName

                                            
iv.          ODATA-939: Add example for groupby single-valued navigation property

8.     
OData CSDL JSON [9:40am] 

a.     
Parked issues

                                                   
i.     ODATA-906 Consider how to specify an included namespace as a default in JSON CSDL

                                                  
ii.     ODATA-890 Specify how to get from a JSON message to a JSON schema for validating this
 message

                                                 
iii.     ODATA-863 Represent Terms similar to Types

 

Next meeting [9:50am]

b.     
Thursday June 2, 2016? 

 

AOB and wrap up [9:55am]

 

[2] References

Conference call details: 
https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/odata/download.php/56760/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