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I have a few questions about intended use of TMF640 (please forgive my ignorance):

1. The "Create Service" call is used to provision a service in the network, that gets submitted as an input - is that correct? The "create" verb makes it a bit confusing: I assume it means "create a service of a specific type in the network, for which I am providing a description in a form of a collection of characteristics and their values".
2. How do I make a "Create Service" call asynchronously so that I can retrieve the response (much) later?
3. Along the same lines: what is the best way to monitor status of service provisioning, for which the "Create Service" call was made?

Thanks!

I have a few questions about intended use of TMF640 (please forgive my ignorance):

1. The "Create Service" call is used to provision a service in the network, that gets submitted as an input - is that correct? The "create" verb makes it a bit confusing: I assume it means "create a service of a specific type in the network, for which I am providing a description in a form of a collection of characteristics and their values".
2. How do I make a "Create Service" call asynchronously so that I can retrieve the response (much) later?
3. Along the same lines: what is the best way to monitor status of service provisioning, for which the "Create Service" call was made?

Thanks!

Hi Dmytro,

Yes, it is confusing - but they key is align with the view that TMF640 is supposed to manipulate a Service (not the record of a service, but the actual service).

So the POST (create) here is intended to instantiate the service in the network - whatever that may entail.

Similarly PATCH (modify) is intended to change the service in the network

and of course DELETE is intended to remove the service from the network.

I have a few questions about intended use of TMF640 (please forgive my ignorance):

1. The "Create Service" call is used to provision a service in the network, that gets submitted as an input - is that correct? The "create" verb makes it a bit confusing: I assume it means "create a service of a specific type in the network, for which I am providing a description in a form of a collection of characteristics and their values".
2. How do I make a "Create Service" call asynchronously so that I can retrieve the response (much) later?
3. Along the same lines: what is the best way to monitor status of service provisioning, for which the "Create Service" call was made?

Thanks!

I have a few questions about intended use of TMF640 (please forgive my ignorance):

1. The "Create Service" call is used to provision a service in the network, that gets submitted as an input - is that correct? The "create" verb makes it a bit confusing: I assume it means "create a service of a specific type in the network, for which I am providing a description in a form of a collection of characteristics and their values".
2. How do I make a "Create Service" call asynchronously so that I can retrieve the response (much) later?
3. Along the same lines: what is the best way to monitor status of service provisioning, for which the "Create Service" call was made?

Thanks!

@Dmytro Vostrikov asks about asynchronous use of TMF640, for which @Jonathan Goldberg provided the relevant documentation references.

To be clear, since your question is from an API consumer standpoint, the API producer will have chosen whether or not to implement asynchronous operation. You will know it is an asynchronous operation if the Status Code of the response is 202 Accepted. In this case a Location header should be included with the URL of a monitor resource which you may poll (GET)  to get progress updates and know when it is complete. You may also subscribe to notifications.

I have a few questions about intended use of TMF640 (please forgive my ignorance):

1. The "Create Service" call is used to provision a service in the network, that gets submitted as an input - is that correct? The "create" verb makes it a bit confusing: I assume it means "create a service of a specific type in the network, for which I am providing a description in a form of a collection of characteristics and their values".
2. How do I make a "Create Service" call asynchronously so that I can retrieve the response (much) later?
3. Along the same lines: what is the best way to monitor status of service provisioning, for which the "Create Service" call was made?

Thanks!