Re: CCXML Implementation Report: asserts 714 and 715 - ISSUE-670

Petr,

We are re-discussed the issues around 'sessionid' on 'ccxml.exit', see below the proposition to change in the specification the definition of that property to make it useful. In attachment, a picture to help the clarification.

Please check if it sounds reasonable. This means that both spec and the test will be change accordingly.

Regards,
Author of CCXML-IR Plan

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Starting from ISSUE-670 we think that a clarification within the CCXML spec is required on sessionid property of ccxml.exit event.

sessionid property is defined as "The identifier of the session."; is not clear which session identifier must be stored in that property, if the current session or the session who has sent the ccxml.kill event.
In our opinion this sessionid must be the identifier of the session that has sent the ccxml.event and not the CCXML target session, for two reasons:

a) CCXML target session is the one which receives the event itself and doesn't need additional information
b) If sessionid property of ccxml.kill is different from the identifier of the session which has received the event there is an inconsistency!   

Furthermore consequently to this clarification we think that sessionid property of ccxml.kill must be OPTIONAL and not REQUIRED (see attached figure):

ccxml.kill event can be sent in the following ways:
- by a session to itself (1)
- by a session to another session which can be a child session or not (2)
- by an external entity to a session (3)

Case (1)
Session X send a ccxml.kill event to itself, so the target of <send> element is X and the sessionid property of ccxml.kill event is X. 

Case (2)
Session X send a ccxml.kill event to session Y so the target of <send> element is Y and the sessionid property of ccxml.kill event is X.

Case (3)
An external entity send a ccxml.kill event to session Y: the target of <send> element is Y but there is no way to assign the sessionid property!

The group approved the following two changes:

So regarding the CCXML spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/ccxml/#flowEventsCCXMLkill) the table of ccxml.kill event can be modified in this way:

- sessionid, not required but optional, 
- Description: The identifier of the session who has sent the event.

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Paolo,

Could you please clarify the "sessionid in ccxml.kill" issue in more 
detail? Perhaps I'm missing something...

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We are OK with all the remaining resolutions you've posted so far.
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Description of the "sessionid in ccxml.kill" issue:

We understand that the sessionid attribute in ccxml.kill contains the 
session id. The question is who is responsible for inserting the 
sessionid attribute into the ccxml.kill event if the event is sent using 
<send>?

I understand that the platform must insert the attributes listed in 
"9.4.2: Standard Event Attributes" into an event when interpreting 
<send>. The sessionid attribute is not listed here. However, I don't 
think that the platform should insert any other attributes of standard 
events automatically.

Since 6_1.txml doesn't include sessionid in the namelist of the <send> 
it looks like the platform should be responsible for inserting the 
sessionid attribute. Is it correct? It sounds strange to me...

Thanks for clasrification,
Petr