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  • 1.  TMF Customer Bill Management API -- Operation for List Bill Cycles

    Posted Dec 02, 2021 01:31
    Hello,

    In the user guide of customer bill management, I could see the API Operation for retrieving the list of bill cycles "GET /billCycle?fields=...&{filtering}". But the same is not showing in the swagger doc or in Conformance Profile. Is the /billCycle a valid API to expose for retrieving the bill cycle??

    I have a requirement to provide the last 1 year bill cycle issue date and corresponding bill cycle specifications.  Please provide your suggestions.

    Document Referred: https://tmf-open-api-table-documents.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/OpenApiTable/4.0.0/user_guides/TMF678_Customer_Bill_Management_API_User_Guide_v4.0.0.pdf

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    veera chopperla
    BT Group plc
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  • 2.  RE: TMF Customer Bill Management API -- Operation for List Bill Cycles

    Posted Dec 02, 2021 02:07
    Hi Veera
    In general, all the GETs for managed entities in the Open API should support filtering by all top-level attributes, those contained directly in the parent entity (apart from href), unless explicitly specified otherwise in the conformance profile for a given API.
    The filter parameters are not generated into the API swagger files, presumably due to complexity, and also to the possible support for JSON Path expressions, whose syntax is not expressible in swagger.
    Hope it helps.

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    Jonathan Goldberg
    Amdocs Management Limited
    Any opinions and statements made by me on this forum are purely personal, and do not necessarily reflect the position of the TM Forum or my employer.
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  • 3.  RE: TMF Customer Bill Management API -- Operation for List Bill Cycles

    Posted Dec 02, 2021 04:55
    Thanks Jonathan for your reply.

    I am looking for an operation which returns last 24 month bills for a given billing account.  Can I use "GET /customerBill?fields=...&{filtering} " operation to filter the billCycles for single billing Account. 

    The sample response for (GET /customerBill) provided in the user guide is slightly confusing it address multiple billing accounts for given customer or it will return the multiple bills of given billing account.

    [
    {
    "id": "CB-123",
    "href": "https://server:port/tmf-api/Customer_Bill_Management/v4/customerBill/CB-123",
    "billingAccount": {
    "id": "A0815",
    "href": "http://host:port/tmf-api/Account_Management/v4/billingAccount/A0815",
    "name": "BA Peter Retep",
    "@referredType": "billingAccount",
    "@type": "billingAccountRef",
    "@baseType": "billingAccountRef",
    "@schemaLocation": "...some href..."
    }
    },
    {
    "id": "CB-456",
    "href": "https://server:port/tmf-api/Customer_Bill_Management/v4/customerBill/CB-456",
    "billingAccount": {
    "id": "A4712",
    "href": "http://host:port/tmf-api/Account_Management/v4/billingAccount/A4712",
    "name": "BA Claire Erialc",
    "@referredType": "billingAccount",
    "@type": "billingAccountRef",
    "@baseType": "billingAccountRef",
    "@schemaLocation": "...some href..."
    }
    }
    ]

    I am specifically looking for the operation similar to GET /billCycle?fields=...&{filtering}, Not getting the appropriate way to use the /customerBill entity to achieve this.

    Regards,
    Veera

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    veera chopperla
    BT Group plc
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  • 4.  RE: TMF Customer Bill Management API -- Operation for List Bill Cycles

    Posted Dec 03, 2021 03:47
    Hello Jonathan/Team,

    One more observation billCycle entity is provided in user Guide for Get /customerBill operation.

    But in the schema of /customerBill, billCycle parameter itself is not mentioned in the response schema. Could you please correct me on this.

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    veera chopperla
    BT Group plc
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  • 5.  RE: TMF Customer Bill Management API -- Operation for List Bill Cycles

    Posted Dec 05, 2021 09:32
    Since billingAccount is a direct attribute on CustomerBill, you should indeed be able to filter the list of all bills on GET CustomerBill by ?billingAccount.id=<the ID> - provided your API implementation supports this (seems to me this is a very basic functional requirement for this API). And you could further filter by billingPeriod to narrow down to particular date range.
    Hope it helps.

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    Jonathan Goldberg
    Amdocs Management Limited
    Any opinions and statements made by me on this forum are purely personal, and do not necessarily reflect the position of the TM Forum or my employer.
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  • 6.  RE: TMF Customer Bill Management API -- Operation for List Bill Cycles

    Posted Dec 07, 2021 05:51
    Hi Jonathan,

    Thanks for the above reply, on GET/customerBill/{id} Swagger response we can find resource as BillCycle however the same in not present in the response or schema reference, can you please let me know why the bill cycle is absent in above call response, attached is the screen which I am referring here

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    Nagarjuna Chilaka
    BT Group plc
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  • 7.  RE: TMF Customer Bill Management API -- Operation for List Bill Cycles

    Posted Dec 07, 2021 11:42
    Hi Nagarjuna
    I'm afraid that I cannot answer for a particular implementation of the API. All I can do is refer you to the model, which has billCycle ref as a direct attribute in the CustomerBill entity (as one would expect).
    Perhaps you need to consult with the people who developed this particular implementation.
    Unless the CustomerBill was produced out-of-cycle (e.g. by a Bill-on-Demand request) I would expect to see billCycle returned in the GET.

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    Jonathan Goldberg
    Amdocs Management Limited
    Any opinions and statements made by me on this forum are purely personal, and do not necessarily reflect the position of the TM Forum or my employer.
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