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Review the use case for composite (referred to as "chaining" in the previous meeting) services
Attendees
Agenda
- Ratify initial list of "what to distill from use cases". (Aaron Birkland)
- Refined validation use cases from Stefano Cossu
- Role of API-X for supporting transactions (??)
- Actor models - having the API-X (or an extension) be an actor
- Transactions as a core feature of the Fedora 4 platform
- Think about composition of extensions for next meting?
- Any Other Business
- Elliot away: 9/28 - 10/28
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Previous meeting agenda, including minutes
Minutes
- Consensus on use case evaluation - let's use the proposal as-is
- Should we create sub-pages of each use case, or edit/modify pages in place?
- Editing in place is probably more clear
- Decision: Edit in place
- Action item: Everybody evaluate/reformat at least one use case
- Unknown User (acoburn) believes that most or all of Amherst use cases can be finished by next call
- Joshua Westgard will adopt deposit/ingest related use case
- Aaron Birkland will work with Ruth Duerr for ESIP use case.
- Stefano Cossu may add additional AIC use case related to notifying clients when depositing duplicate binary resources
- Validation use cases - discussion around whether validation extension would be 'globally on' (with the means to configure it to disable validation where it's not wanteed), or a hook to have API-X invoke validation extension or not
- Decided to just go with 'globally on'
- Actor model seems well suited to API-X
- Extension is autonomous 'actor' that does everything for you
- Client interacts with it via message passing (e.g. POST a list of resources to be ingested)
- Actor does all the heavy lifting (possibly employing transactions with Fedora) and responds
- Client wouldn't be aware of transactions
- For concurrency, actor could possibly be a single thread + queue, all operations serialized
- API-X framework would largely be agnostic about what's going on in an extension, so we're taking about what occurs within an extension when it's handling a user request.
- Aaron to find out more about Hydra use cases
- Meeting on the 23rd may be problematic, will send out poll to see if another date better