RE: Draft Specification for Service Based Approach Using WebSockets

Hi Kevin!

Getting my head a bit above the “water” I have some time to look at the specification draft which you guys so admirably have started on.

Two comments so far:

(This first comment  is more related to the data spec I guess)
In our previous spec through WebIDL we have a way of declaring a specific signal readonly. Is this still desirable ? if so should it be added to the data tree ?

Previous WebIDL ex:
Interface Indentification : VehicleCommonDataType {
                             readonly attribute DOMString? VIN;
                             readonly attribute DOMString? WMI;
                             …
}

Would then be something like:

# Vehicle type specific signals

-          Vehicletype.VIN

type: String

access: readonly

description: Vehicle Identification Number

Second comment is from the Architecture Component Model:
“… This includes a Javascript Library which implements a Web IDl definition …“

I am not sure I understand what you mean here. I would think that what you have is a WebIDL implementation of the spec into a WebRuntime such as Google Chrome, IE , Opera etc… From my understanding you would branch out or use your own browser engine branch, and add the WebIDL and its associated native files, and then rebuild the browser engine which then would let the Javascript Engine expose the WebIDL based API to the web developer (This is how you would do it using Chrome) ?  Could you elaborate a bit on what you mean here.

Br
Peter Winzell








From: Gavigan, Kevin [mailto:kgavigan@jaguarlandrover.com]
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2016 10:56 AM
To: Paul Boyes
Cc: Peter Winzell; Crofts, Adam; public-automotive; Peter Virk; Lovene Bhatia; Rudolf Streif; Powell Kinney
Subject: Re: Draft Specification for Service Based Approach Using WebSockets

Hi Gents,

I've updated the wiki spec to include an architecture diagram. It's based on the one on the whiteboard at the F2F (but this only showed an onboard web client accessing data, so have extended to include other types of clients)

All feedback  or suggestions for improvement very much welcomed of course :-).

With your agreement, we will modify the WebSocket section to include a requestId that is passed from client to server on each call and which is echoed back in the response (this was an idea proposed Rudi via email and by Powell and Rudi on the call which will make it much easier for client to link responses to requests)

Thanks and regards,

Kev

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On 7 June 2016 at 16:36, Gavigan, Kevin <kgavigan@jaguarlandrover.com<mailto:kgavigan@jaguarlandrover.com>> wrote:
Hi,

I've updated the Security section to include some general points that apply to both WebSockets and RESTful web services:

https://www.w3.org/auto/wg/wiki/Vehicle_Information_Service_Specification#Security_and_Privacy_Considerations


Kind regards,

Kevin

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On 7 June 2016 at 14:18, Paul Boyes <Paul.Boyes@inrix.com<mailto:Paul.Boyes@inrix.com>> wrote:
Excellent indeed.  I will look at this in detail later today.

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On Jun 7, 2016, at 3:56 AM, Peter Winzell <Peter.Winzell@melcogot.com<mailto:Peter.Winzell@melcogot.com>> wrote:

Excellent !
I have just browsed through – Thank you for your hard work!!
/pw

From: Crofts, Adam [mailto:acrofts1@jaguarlandrover.com]
Sent: Monday, June 6, 2016 12:58 PM
To: public-automotive
Cc: Kevin Gavigan; Peter Virk; Lovene Bhatia
Subject: Draft Specification for Service Based Approach Using WebSockets

Hi All,

Kevin and I have drafted a specification for the service based approach using WebSockets, as discussed in Issue 81<https://github.com/w3c/automotive/issues/81>. The draft can be found in the working group wiki here<https://www.w3.org/auto/wg/wiki/Vehicle_Information_Service_Specification#WebSocket_2>.

The specification builds upon the approach raised by Powell Kinney, using a single WebSocket to send JSON data structures to the server. The JSON structure specifies the desired vehicle signal specification (VSS) path, an action parameter to specify get, set, subscribe or unsubscribe as well as a number of optional parameters.

This specification allows:

  *   Use of the VSS, including wildcards and indexing
  *   GET/SET over WebSocket
  *   SUBSCRIBE to receive change notifications, allowing settable change thresholds and upper/lower bounds
  *   SUBSCRIBE to receive notifications at a given time interval.
  *   UNSUBSCRIBE via a subscription handle
  *   UNSUBSCRIBE from all notifications
  *   Security tokens to be passed from the client to the server, such as OAuth 2.0
We'll go through this on the call on Tuesday night and look forward to hearing your thoughts.

Kind regards,

Adam

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