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The Information Model of the International Data Spaces implements the IDS reference architecture as an extensible, machine readable and technology independent data model.
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Configmanager Routen boolean #387

Closed HeinrichPet closed 3 years ago

HeinrichPet commented 3 years ago

Hi @HaydarAk,

inside a appRoute we need a boolean to indicate that a route is broken, meaning that there is no route from Start A to End Z (because some subroutes a not connected).

Best regards, Heinrich

HaydarAk commented 3 years ago

Hi @HeinrichPet I see the problem, but I am not sure that this kind of information belongs to the Information Model. Let me explain why I think it does not belong there:

In my opinion, it is a task of the "application logic" to ensure that a route is complete, before it is persisted. Complete = Start A and End Z are connnected via some subroutes.

I think we should have a clear distinction between our "persistance layer" (the Information Model) and our application layer. On the persistance layer, there are basic syntactic and semantic checks (does X contain all mandatory properties and is therefore valid) while runtime / application specific information has to be checked in the application layer. A broken app route is similar to a Connector Self description message which has no payload -> Both are incomplete / incorrect.

HeinrichPet commented 3 years ago

Hi @HaydarAk

you are right. Then the issues can be closed.