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

That very subjective.  To you Filtering is critical - to someone else 
being able to know for sure when and why a subscription ends might be just 
as critical.  GetStatus is not a sufficient replacement fro EndTo - 
GetStatus will never tell you why a subscription terminated prematurely.

thanks
-Doug
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Ram Jeyaraman <Ram.Jeyaraman@microsoft.com> 
01/08/2010 04:59 PM

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






Since it is not possible to set up a successful subscription without 
honoring the filtering requirements, it makes sense to reject a 
subscription request with FilteringNotSupported fault.
 
But the availability of EndTo and support for SubscriptionEnd operation is 
not critical since the client can use GetStatus to find out the same. The 
current behavior allows clients to interact with services with different 
capabilities and vice versa; this is particularly useful in cases where 
the client and service do not live in a controlled environment. Attempting 
to match capabilities of clients that do or do not support EndTo with 
services that do or do not support SubscriptionEnd is quite complex and it 
makes the simple case very complex.
 
Thanks.
 
From: Doug Davis [mailto:dug@us.ibm.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 12:32 PM
To: Ram Jeyaraman
Cc: public-ws-resource-access@w3.org
Subject: RE: [Bug 8286] New: description of Subscription End ambiguous
 

Why do we have a FilteringNotSupported fault then?  That's an optional 
element and an optional feature - yet we tell the subscriber that we don't 
support it.   By your first sentence we should silently ignore the Filter 
element if we don't support it, and we should ignore any unknown filter 
dialects - after all, they're optional.   
Its not clear to me why we would not want to be user-friendly and let a 
subscriber know that what they asked for will not be adhered to.  We're 
not talking about an extension (which can be silently ignored w/o an mU=1 
type of flag), we're talking about something that is defined by the base 
spec. 

thanks
-Doug
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Ram Jeyaraman <Ram.Jeyaraman@microsoft.com> 
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01/08/2010 03:20 PM 


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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. 
  
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[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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Gilbert Pilz <gilbert.pilz@oracle.com> 
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01/05/2010 05:24 PM 
 


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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
      AssignedTo: public-ws-resource-access-notifications@w3.org
      ReportedBy: gilbert.pilz@oracle.com
       QAContact: public-ws-resource-access-notifications@w3.org


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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