RE: [Bug 8286] New: description of Subscription End ambiguous

The notion of optionality implies duality, that is, SubscriptionEnd may or may not be supported. Further, such optional behavior should not affect normal processing.

>From a client subscriber perspective, optionality means the following:


1.        The Subscribe request containing an EndTo is accepted normally (that is, the subscription is NOT rejected because the event source cannot support SubscriptionEnd).

2.       It MAY receive a SubcriptionEnd if the event source is capable of sending SubscriptionEnd. No guarantees.

Based on this, I do not see a reason to fault a Subscribe containing an EndTo when the event source does not support SubscriptionEnd.  This allows the clients to function as intended irrespective of whether an optional behavior is supported or not by the service.

Thanks.

From: public-ws-resource-access-request@w3.org [mailto:public-ws-resource-access-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Doug Davis
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+1
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-resource-access/2010Jan/0009.html

thanks
-Doug
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Re: [Bug 8286] New: description of Subscription End ambiguous







This is unacceptable because the Subscriber/Event Sink has no way of knowing if SubscriptionEnd is supported. It supplies an EndTo EPR, the Subscribe request succeeds, it gets some Notifications, then the subscription terminates unexpectedly (something it doesn't know about), then . . . nothing.

If support for SubscriptionEnd is really optional (something I don't remember to agreeing to - but my memory is shot), then it seems to me that we should:

1.) Define a new fault for a Subscribe message that includes an EndTo EPR along the lines of wse:SubscriptionEndNotSupported.

2.) Add a parameter to the wse:EventSource policy assertion that indicates support for SubscriptionEnd.

- gp

On 1/3/2010 9:17 AM, Ram Jeyaraman wrote:
I agree with this proposal except for the part where support for the SubscriptionEnd operation is required. During our earlier conversations, we determined that support for the SubscriptionEnd operation is optional for the Event Source. Given that, I suggest an amended proposal (change MUST to MAY):

"If the event source terminates a subscription unexpectedly and the wse:EndTo EPR was present in the Subscribe message for that subscription (see 4.1 Subscribe), the SubscriptionEnd message MAY be sent to the endpoint referenced by that EPR. The message MUST be of the following form:"

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Subject: [Bug 8286] New: description of Subscription End ambiguous

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8286

          Summary: description of Subscription End ambiguous
          Product: WS-Resource Access
          Version: PR
         Platform: All
       OS/Version: All
           Status: NEW
         Severity: normal
         Priority: P2
        Component: Eventing
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Section 4.5 "Subscription End" starts with the following paragraph:

"If the event source terminates a subscription unexpectedly, SubscriptionEnd SOAP message SHOULD be sent to the endpoint reference indicated when the subscription was created (see 4.1 Subscribe). This endpoint reference MUST refer to an endpoint that supports the SubscriptionEndPortType portType. The message MUST be of the following form:"

The "SHOULD" in this sentence is ambiguous. Does it refer to the act of transmitting the message or does it refer to where the message is transmitted?
In both cases this should be a "MUST"; the SubscriptionEnd message MUST be transmitted, and it MUST be transmitted to the endpoint referenced by the EndTo EPR.

The sentence "This endpoint reference MUST refer to an endpoint that supports the SubscriptionEndPortType portType" is inappropriate and redundant; this is a constraint on the event sink, not the event source. This same constraint is already documented in the description of /wse:Subscribe/wse:EndTo.

Proposal: replace the above paragraph with the following:

"If the event source terminates a subscription unexpectedly and the wse:EndTo EPR was present in the Subscribe message for that subscription (see 4.1 Subscribe), the SubscriptionEnd message MUST be sent to the endpoint referenced by that EPR. The message MUST be of the following form:"


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