Service operations

SWIM-DEFN-270

A service definition shall include or refer to information about the expected exposed service operations including:

• the name of the service operation; and

• a description of the intent and the results of the service operation.

The service provider should be aware of the service operations to be implemented

Completeness: Verify that all service operations are described.

Consistency: Verify the service operations against the messaging technology needs.

Correctness: Not Applicable.

Example

• operation name: queryDataSets

• description: The operation accepts criteria about data sets and returns a list with the metadata about the corresponding data sets.

Note: Service operations can be grouped under service interfaces.

Note: When the operations are used as defined by the protocol selected in SWIM-DEFN-260 there is no need to repeat them in the service definition. This covers, for example, the Open Geospatial Consortium's Web Feature Service that has standardised operations.

Mandatory