Here [1] is the draft agenda (revision 2) for the OData TC (Technical Committee) meeting scheduled on Thursday March 7, 2013 during 8-10am PT. For additional information, such as dial-in details and chat room, refer to [2]. For TC timeline, see [3]. Feel free to suggest additions or modifications. Revision 2 changes: · Added ODATA-68 (recently moved to Proposed) to section 5d. Revision 1 changes: · Inserted subsection 5a to re-discuss ODATA-258. Thanks. [1] Agenda for 2013.03.07 OData TC meeting 1. Roll call [8:00am PT] 2. Approve agenda [8:05am PT] 3. Approve minutes from previous meeting(s) [8:10am PT] a. Minutes from Feb 28, 2013 TC meeting:
https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/odata/download.php/48411/odata-meeting-27_on-20130228-minutes.html 4. Review action items [Action item list:
https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/odata/members/action_items.php ] [8:15am PT] a. Action items due by March 7, 2013 i. None b. Action items NOT due by March 7, 2013 but MAY be ready for closure i. Any? 5. Process issues [Issues list:
https://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&mode=hide&pid=10103 ] [8:20am PT] a. Issues in Applied state that need to be re-discussed (requested by editors) i. ODATA-258 : Advertise function imports in service document b. Issues in Proposed state (carried over from Feb 21, 2013 TC meeting) i. OData CSDL v1.0 1. ODATA-267 Allow Qualifier attribute on Annotation elements within an Annotations element that does NOT specify a Qualifier attribute [New] ii. OData JSON Format v1.0 1. ODATA-102 5.4.1/2 Representing Actions/Functions Bound to Multiple Entities [Open] iii. OData Protocol v1.0 1. ODATA-37 UPSERT: allow PUT and PATCH to the URL of a not yet existing entity to create this entity [New] 2. ODATA-42 8.2.5 If-None-Match: clarify use of If-None-Match in data modification or action requests [New] 3. ODATA-204 Define namespace versioning policy for XML namespaces [New] 4. ODATA-244 Support navigation properties on complex types [New] 5. ODATA-260 Make explicit that DELETE on an entity may implicitly change links to and from other entities [New] iv. OData URL Conventions v1.0 1. ODATA-264 Allow omitting parent key(s) in URLs to contained children [New] c. Issues in Proposed state (carried over from Feb 28, 2013) i. OData ABNF Construction Rules OData Protocol OData URL Conventions 1. ODATA-280 Support cast segment in $expand [New] ii. OData ATOM Format OData CSDL OData JSON Format OData Protocol OData URL Conventions 1. ODATA-276 Fix issues with entity references and rationalize with $links [New] iii. OData CSDL 1. ODATA-275 Clarify that binding parameters for actions and functions cannot be nullable [New] iv. OData Protocol OData URL Conventions 1. ODATA-274 OData clients should always use PATCH, deprecate PUT [New] v. OData URL Conventions 1. ODATA-279 Define URL conventions for addressing functions and function imports [New] d. Issues in Proposed state (since Feb 28, 2013) i. OData ABNF Construction Rules 1. ODATA-232 : Enhance description of normalization procedures (public comment c201301e00001) [New] ii. OData CSDL 1. ODATA-284 : Annotating an Annotation [New] iii. OData CSDL, OData Protocol 1. ODATA-270 : Collections of Edm.PrimitiveType are problematic in JSON [New] iv. OData ABNF Construction Rules, OData Protocol, OData URL Conventions 1. ODATA-281 : Keep second() as integer, introduce FractionalSeconds [New] v. OData Protocol 1. ODATA-282 : Support individual data modification statements within a batch without wrapping in a changeset [New] 2. ODATA-177 : Allow entities to be members of multiple entity sets [Open] 3. ODATA-159 : Handling inline attachments in requests/responses [New] vi. OData JSON Format, OData Protocol 1. ODATA-283 : Accept-Charset HTTP Request Header and charset content-type parameter [New] vii. OData ATOM Format, OData JSON Format 1. ODATA-68 : Describe representation of ReferenceTypes in responses [Open] e. Issues in Applied state (carried over from Feb 28, 2013) i. OData ABNF Construction Rules OData ATOM Format OData CSDL OData JSON Format OData Protocol OData URL Conventions 1. ODATA-214 Find consensus on "Additional artifacts"-section of multi component Work Products (and implement accordingly) 2. ODATA-179 Adapt OData inter document references to new work product structuring of core ii. OData ABNF Construction Rules OData URL Conventions 1. ODATA-215 Remove hour(), minute() and second() query functions and add corresponding overloads to the hours(), minutes(), and seconds() functions iii. OData ATOM Format 1. ODATA-251 Clarify, within [ATOM], that complex types can be annotated 2. ODATA-250 For instance annotations in Atom, "Annotation" element, "Type", "Term" and "Target" attributes should be lower case 3. ODATA-178 Enhance abstract, distinguish its content from 1st paragraph of introduction and edit the payload object listing in 2nd para of 1 Introduction 4. ODATA-147 Add example for $inlinecount representation 5. ODATA-146 Add example for inlining expanded entities iv. OData CSDL 1. ODATA-273 Clarify whether derived types MUST introduce new properties 2. ODATA-272 Remove FixedLength facet 3. ODATA-268 Use
http://docs.oasis-open.org/odata/ns/edm as the EDM namespace URL 4. ODATA-237 Require type usage to always specify a qualified name for types other than the built-in primitive types 5. ODATA-76 Edm.Decimal is a floating-point type v. OData CSDL OData Protocol 1. ODATA-269 Separate Functions and Actions vi. OData JSON Format 1. ODATA-249 "Kind" property should be optional for EntitySets in JSON Service Documents vii. OData Protocol v1.0 1. ODATA-110 Track Prefer Header in Http 2. ODATA-129 Explicitly mention dynamic navigation properties in 3. ODATA-261 Improve section 10.2.3.8 The $format System Query Option 4. ODATA-103 5.4.1 Representing Actions Bound to Multiple Entities: specify treatment of action overloads viii. OData URL Conventions v1.0 1. ODATA-142 Define URL functions geo.distance, geo.length, geo.intersects, and gettotaloffsetminutes 2. ODATA-140 Describe rules for accessing derived entity and complex types in URLs 3. ODATA-203 Specify Operator Precedence more clearly 4. ODATA-104 Consider supporting nullable complex typed properties 5. ODATA-72 Describe any() and all() lambda filter expressions 6. ODATA-122 Please clarify the meaning of filter functions applied to DateTimeOffset values f. Issues in Applied state (since Feb 28, 2013) i. OData CSDL 1. ODATA-278 : Introduce vocabulary _expression_ edm:Url 2. ODATA-242 : Allow Path expressions also for annotations targeting an entity container 3. ODATA-236 : Define maximum length of namespace names and simple identifiers 4. ODATA-234 : Merge Reference and AnnotationReference element 5. ODATA-173 : Define Action values for OnDelete element 6. ODATA-257 : Define standard client-side function for filling URL templates (RFC6570) ii. OData CSDL, Vocabularies 1. ODATA-201 : Allow specifying a list of acceptable media types for media entities and named resource properties iii. OData CSDL, OData Protocol, Vocabularies 1. ODATA-43 : No indicator for optimistic concurrency control on EntityType or EntitySet level iv. OData Protocol, Vocabularies 1. ODATA-253 : Clients should be prepared to handle unadvertised properties v. OData ATOM Format 1. ODATA-20 : Feedback to document revision 2. ODATA-200 : Handling of metadata:type attribute 3. ODATA-254 : Selection of individual properties in [ATOM] should not include property name 4. ODATA-252 : Clarify ordering of instance annotations in [ATOM] and [JSON] vi. OData Protocol 1. ODATA-233 : Change $batch response code from 202 Accepted to 200 OK 2. ODATA-157 : Specify how client correlates requests within a changeset with responses 3. ODATA-121 : Please clarify whether agents handling DateTimeOffset must preserve the UTC offset 4. ODATA-265 : Allow omitting key properties from PUT and PATCH request bodies and from nested entities in deep-insert requests vii. OData ATOM Format, OData CSDL, OData JSON Format 1. ODATA-258 : Advertise function imports in service document viii. OData ATOM Format, OData JSON Format, OData Protocol 1. ODATA-247 : More clearly define extensibility of Formats g. Issues that appear to require deeper discussion i. OData CSDL 1. ODATA-266 : Strengthen the requirements for the URL Attribute in edmx:Reference and edmx:AnnotationReference [New] 2. ODATA-239 : Allowing expressions to be passed as parameters to (super) functions [New] 3. ODATA-256 : Simplify numeric data types [New] 4. ODATA-271 : Support IsAlwaysBindable through annotation, rather than attribute of function/action [New] ii. OData Protocol 1. ODATA-246 : IDs should be dereferenceable URIs [New] 2. ODATA-262 Specify how OData services can be protected against cross-site request forgery (CSRF or XSRF) [Open] iii. Vocabularies 1. ODATA-192 Define core vocabulary term as a replacement for StoreGeneratedPattern attribute [New] 6. Next meeting [9:58am PT] a. March 14 , 2013 during 8-9am PT? 7. AOB and wrap up [9:59am PT] [2] References · Conference call details:
https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/odata/download.php/46401/TC%20meeting%20dial-in%20details.htm · Chat room:
http://webconf.soaphub.org/conf/room/odatatc [3] Timeline ·
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/48148/TC%20Timeline%203.htm