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  1. OASIS Cloud Application Management for Platforms (CAMP) TC
  2. CAMP-155

attribute_definition resource is modeled incorrectly

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    • Type: Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Priority: Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
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    • Fix Version/s: None
    • Component/s: Spec
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      The attribute_definition resource is modeled incorrectly. The "required", "mutable", and "consumer_mutable" attributes are not properties of the attribute definition but, instead, properties of the relationship between the attribute and its containing resource. I noticed this when I was writing the type and attribute definitions for the pre-great-refactoring version of CAMP. One resource would have a "parameterDefinitionsUri" attribute that was required and another resource would have a "parameterDefinitionsUri" attribute that was optional. The value space and semantics of both attributes are identical but, because we model the required/optional choice in the definition of the attribute itself, I had to create two resources: one to represent a required "parameterDefinitionsUri" attribute and another to represent an optional "parameterDefinitionsUri". Obviously each of these resources had its own, unique URI.

      This isn't that big of a deal until you add the notion of resource type inheritance to the mix. If someone where introspecting the type and attribute definitions to figure out what a particular extension resource looked like and came across two parent types, each with an attribute named "parameter_definitions_uri" but which referenced different attribute_definition resources for this attribute, that person would be justified in concluding that this implementation was violating the rules of resource type inheritance.

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              gilbert.pilz Gilbert Pilz
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              gilbert.pilz Gilbert Pilz
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