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  • 1.  Bulk provisioning

    TM Forum Member
    Posted Apr 16, 2021 13:15
    Hi Team,
    I would like to understand whether the TMF APis, for example TMF666 Account Management or TMF637 Product Inventory, are intended for massive actions, like for example create a huge number of entities, like a huge array with one request.
    I've searched TMF637 section 6 but there is nothing about that.

    Alessandro Capobianco

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    Alessandro Capobianco
    Ericsson Inc.
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  • 2.  RE: Bulk provisioning

    TM Forum Member
    Posted Apr 18, 2021 02:10
    Hi Alessandro
    The TMF Open APIs follow the REST pattern and use the REST verbs, thus they operate within the limitations of these. Thus POST, PATCH, DELETE operate on a single resource.
    If you need to do bulk stuff, you will have to use the task pattern as described in TMF630, creating a dedicated task resource that allows you to have a payload with arrays.
    Probably for massive bulk operations you'll need to consider other issues apart from API signatures, such as:
    • dealing with partial success
    • performance
    • monitoring
    Hope it helps

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    Amdocs Management Limited
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