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NATO Education and Training Network (NETN) Organisation (ORG) Module
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ORBAT: Unit Text21 datatype #14

Closed bergtwvd closed 5 years ago

bergtwvd commented 5 years ago

Why this specific restriction (21 chars) in the datatype? I would make it variable. Also a different datatype name might be better: e.g. DesignationType.

So, UniqueDesignation and HigherFormation are of type DesignationType.

LennartOlsson commented 5 years ago

It is specified to be max 21 characters in MSDL (msdl:text21).

bergtwvd commented 5 years ago

I don't think we want to be constrained by the MSDL schema limits ?

LennartOlsson commented 5 years ago

This constraint and others are from MIL-STD 2525 C and APP 6.

In my opinion it should possible to import an ORBAT from a MSDL file and exported it to a MSDL file. Changing data types will ruin or make it difficult to have this functionality.

We can make extension but not change any existing definitions.

LennartOlsson commented 5 years ago

A Federate/Application that publish the ORBAT information in a Federation Execution must first load an ORBAT during the Federation Initialization and then save the ORBAT between Federation Executions, I do not know any better than using the SISO standard MSDL (SISO-STD-007-2008) for this. MSDL is used by many Federates/Applications in this community.

With this follows some constraints, definitions of attributes on object classes, definitions of data types, etc.

bergtwvd commented 5 years ago

Ok, so a design choice to remain compatible with MSDL and inherit these restrictions?

bergtwvd commented 5 years ago

One other question / remark: Datatype Test21 is 21 chars, but the SIDC is 15 chars. Why this different? And if we expect a SIDC here, why not using a datatype name such as SIDC?

LennartOlsson commented 5 years ago

These data types is for different types of attributes, the name of the data type for SIDC is SymbolIdentifierArray15 defining a character sequence of exactly 15 chars, Data type Text21 is a character sequence with 0-21 chars.

LennartOlsson commented 5 years ago

These data types is for different types of attributes, the name of the data type for SIDC is SymbolIdentifierArray15 defining a character sequence of exactly 15 chars, Data type Text21 is a character sequence with 0-21 chars.