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Requirement

Title

Technical constraint

Identifier

SWIM-SERV-015

Requirement

If technical constraints are known, a service description shall include information about the technical constraints that would guide the consumer in their client development.

Rationale

Knowing and satisfying the pre-requisite constraints of a service facilitate good use of the service, such as benefiting from the indicated quality of service statements.

This requirement supports decision making in terms of assessing the implication, costs and feasibility, of using the service.

Verification

Completeness: Not Applicable.

Consistency: If provided, verify that the information corresponds to the described service.

Correctness: Not Applicable.

Examples/Notes

Example technical constraints: firewall, minimum bandwidth or server resources, interface language, integration pattern, protocol and communication ports.

Example: For a publication service where the subscription mechanism is not based on a capability of the service itself, stakeholders need to understand how they can subscribe (e.g. using electronic form, email, etc).

Level of Implementation

Mandatory Conditional


Guidance

Examples

See the Technical Constraint section within the Donlon TOBT Setting Service Description.

Guidance for JSON service description 

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Schema

The guidance concerns JSON Schema v0.0.3 (see Schema releases).

		"ServiceTechnicalDescription" : 
		{
			"description" : "Description of the technical aspects of the service including data structures, interface and operations behaviour, security mechanisms and technical constraints",
			"type": "object",
			"additionalProperties": false,
			
			"properties":
			{

				"technicalConstraint":
				{
					"description" : "A characteristic of the environment or larger system within which the service operates. [SWIM-SERV-015]",
					"type" : "array",
					"items" : { "$ref":"#/definitions/TechnicalConstraint" },
					"minItems": 1
				}

			}
		},


		"TechnicalConstraint" : 
		{
			"description" : "A characteristic of the environment or larger system within which the service operates. [SWIM-SERV-015]",
			"type": "object",
			"additionalProperties": false,
			"required": ["name", "description"],
			"properties":
			{
				"description":
				{
					"description" : "The description of the technical constraint. [SWIM-SERV-015]",
					"type" : "string",
					"minLength":1
				},
				"name":
				{
					"description" : "The name of the technical constraint. [SWIM-SERV-015]",
					"type" : "string",
					"minLength":1
				}
			}
		},

Rules expressed for the cases as defined in Registry URD.

caserules
COMPLIANTmandatory conditional
CANDIDATE
DEFINITION

Guidance

When technical constraints exist, it is mandatory to describe them.

Rationale: Knowing and satisfying the pre-requisite constraints of a service facilitate good use of the service, such as benefiting from the indicated quality of service statements.It also supports decision making in terms of assessing the implication, costs and feasibility, of using the service.


Within field technicalConstraint (itself within field serviceTechnicalDescription) list zero or more occurrences of type TechnicalConstraint.

TechnicalConstraint - Mandatory Conditional

A characteristic of the environment or larger system within which the service operates.

Note: Mandatory when existing.

Example technical constraints: firewall, minimum bandwidth or server resources, interface language, integration pattern, protocol and communication ports.

attribute namedescriptiontypeguidancerule
nameThe name of the technical constraint.stringProvide a concise name for the technical constraint.Mandatory
descriptionThe description of the technical constraint.stringDescribe the technical constraint.Mandatory

Example

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        "serviceTechnicalDescription": {


            "technicalConstraint": [
                {
                    "name": "...",
                    "description": "..."
                }
            ]
			
		}


(A complete JSON example is available in page JSON example - Donlon TOBT Setting service description.)

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