[oslc-cm] State changes and transitions

[Steve K Speicher]

Scott wrote on 03/10/2010 03:10:08 PM:

> I was not able to attend the CM call today but read with interest 
> Andre's proposal for dealing with change request state change (
> http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/CmStatesAndTransitions ). The
> proposal reminded me a bit of Dave's proposal in the Core spec on 
> partial update (http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/
> OSLCCorePartialUpdateDRAFT ), using "commands" on POST for example 
> to update multi-value properties. Different topics, but I wondered 
> if there are or should be similarities in Andre's notion of actions 
> with Dave's notions of commands? Is this a stretch?

Yes, this was discussed.  The "commands" proposal Andre had put together 
was a sketch of how it might operate, we talked about how best to expose 
this in a RESTful way (admitting that POST'ing an action to a service 
would be more ideal).  Andre has this action.

> Also, the discussion on partial update may be relevant to the 
> Robert's proposals on Comments (http://open-services.net/bin/view/
> Main/CmComments), especially if the multi-value property approach is
> taken...Scott

Yes, Robert mentioned this and we are aligned there.  There are some 
specific differences (comments are sequential or threaded).  So he's 
looking at these scenarios and others, being true to core work going on. I 
mentioned that I have an outstanding action to align some of CM to these 
and we'll keep this comments in line.