1 Definition
An Item containing a description of the Item(s) and the Process(es) to be Discovered.
2 Functional Requirements
Discover should support:
- The needs of humans and Processes to communicate to a Service their needs to Discover Processes and Items.
- Rich form of Discovery requests and responses.
- Discovery requests and responses shall use the same Qualifiers,
3 Syntax
https://schemas.mpai.community/MMM4/V1.0/data/Discover.json
4 Semantics
Label | Size | Description |
Header | N1 Bytes | Discover Header |
– Standard | 9 Bytes | The characters “MMM-DIS-V” |
– Version | N2 Bytes | Major version – 1 or 2 characters |
– Dot-separator | 1 Byte | The character “.” |
– Subversion | N3 Byte | Minor version – 1 or 2 characters |
M-InstanceID | N4 Bytes | Identifier of M-Instance. |
DiscoverID | N5 Bytes | Identifier of Discover Item. |
DiscoverData | N6 Bytes | Set of Discover Data |
– DiscoverQualifier | N7 Bytes | Qualifier of Discover |
– DiscoverDataLength | N8 Bytes | Length of Discover Data |
– DiscoverDataURI | N9 Bytes | URI of Discover Data |
DiscoverFormatID | N10 Bytes | ID of Discover Item Format. |
DescrMetadata | N11 Bytes | Descriptive Metadata |
5 Data Formats
MPAI assumes that different Discover Services will use different Discover Formats.
6 To Respondents
MPAI requests:
- Comments on Functional Requirements of the Discover Item.
- Proposals for an initial list of Discover Formats.