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This repository contains the MEF LSO Sonata SDK. It includes API definitions for the following functional areas:
- Product Catalog
- Serviceability
- Address Validation
- Site Retrieval
- Product Offering Qualification Management
- Product Offering Availability and Pricing Discovery
- Product Quote
- Product Order
- Product Inventory
- Trouble Ticket
- Appointment
- Work Order
It also provides Product Schemas for:
- Access E-Line
- Subscriber Carrier Ethernet (EPL, EPLAN, EPTREE, EVPL, EVPLAN, EVPTREE)
- Internet Access
No new APIs were introduced.
There is a major change in Geographic Address model, introduced by MEF 150. It is implemented consistently across all the APIs.
There are also changes and fixes to some patterns:
- Revised, fully specialized Event model.
- State change events now carry the value of the new
state
buyerId
andsellerId
in notification now carried via query params (consistent with seller side API)
There are the following document maturity changes:
-
Updated documents:
- MEF 110 Product Offering Availability and Pricing Discovery - Business Requirements and Use Cases
- MEF W142 - LSO Cantata and LSO Sonata Product Catalog API & Developer Guide
- MEF W160 - LSO Cantata and LSO Sonata Product Offering Availability and Pricing Discovery API - Developer Guide
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New Documents:
- MEF 57.2.1 Draft Release 1 Amendment to MEF 57.2: Product Order Management Business Requirements and Use Cases
- MEF 79.1 Draft Release 1 Product Offering Qualification Management Business Requirements and Use Cases
- MEF 80.0.1 Draft Release 1 Amendment to MEF 80: Quote Management Requirements and Use Cases
- MEF 110 Draft Release 4 Product Offering Availability and Pricing Discovery - Business Requirements and Use Cases
- MEF 127.1 - LSO Cantata and LSO Sonata Product Catalog - Business Requirements and Use Cases
- MEF 150 Draft Release 1 Installation Place and Service Site Management Business Requirements and Use Cases
- MEF W87.1 - LSO Cantata and LSO Sonata Product Offering Qualification API - Developer Guide
- MEF W115.1 - LSO Cantata and LSO Sonata Quote Management API - Developer Guide
- MEF W116.1- LSO Cantata and LSO Sonata Product Inventory API - Developer Guide
- MEF W121.1 - LSO Cantata and LSO Sonata Address Management API - Developer Guide
- MEF W122.1 - LSO Cantata and LSO Sonata Site Management API - Developer Guide
- MEF W123.1 - LSO Cantata and LSO Sonata Product Ordering Management API - Developer Guide
- MEF W124.1 - LSO Cantata and LSO Sonata Trouble Ticket and Incident Management API - Developer Guide
- MEF W137.1 - LSO Cantata and LSO Sonata Appointment and Work Order Management API - Developer Guide
- MEF W141.1 - LSO Cantata and LSO Sonata Billing Management API - Developer Guide
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Superseded Documents:
- MEF 79 - Address, Service Site, and Product Offering Qualification Management Requirements and Use Cases
- MEF 79.0.1 - Amendment to MEF 79: Address, Service Site, and Product Offering Qualification Management Requirements and Use Cases
- MEF 79.0.2 - Amendment to MEF 79: Address Validation
- MEF 127 - LSO Cantata and LSO Sonata Product Catalog - Business Requirements and Use Cases
The LSO Marketplace offers the possibility to blend the
desired APIs with chosen Products. Thus the APIs blended with all products that
were available in generated/staticBinding
are no longer provided.
NOTE: Please note the Readme files in particular productApi directories to see detailed release notes per API.
The API files contained in this SDK are evolving and subject to change. They are based on documents that are either ratified standards or draft standards that have not yet completed the review cycles and approvals necessary to achieve the status as a MEF standard. MEF is making these publicly available at this time to invite wider industry review.
The maturity per functionality is presented as follows:
(*) is used to mark an item that changes its maturity compared to the previous release.
- Product Catalog:
- Business Requirements:
- *MEF 127.1 - Draft Release 1
- Developer Guide/API:
- *MEF W142 - work in progress - ready for CfC#3
- Business Requirements:
- Address Validation, Site Query:
- Business Requirements:
- *MEF 150 - Draft Release 1
- Developer Guide/API:
- *MEF W121.1 - Address Management - work in progress - CfC#1 Resolved. Ready for LB
- *MEF W122.1 - Site Management - work in progress - CfC#1 Resolved. Ready for LB
- Business Requirements:
- Product Offering Qualification:
- Business Requirements:
- *MEF 79.1 - Draft Release 1
- Developer Guide/API:
- *MEF W87.1 - work in progress - CfC#1 Resolved. Ready for LB
- Business Requirements:
- Quote:
- Business Requirements:
- MEF 80 - Published Standard
- *MEF 80.0.1 - Draft Release 1
- Developer Guide/API:
- *MEF W115.1 - work in progress - ready for CfC#1
- Business Requirements:
- Product Offering Availability and Pricing Discovery:
- Business Requirements:
- *MEF 110 - Draft Standard R4
- Developer Guide/API:
- *MEF W160: - work in progress - ready for CfC#4
- Business Requirements:
- Order:
- Business Requirements:
- MEF 57.2 - Published Standard
- *MEF 57.2.1 - Draft Release 1
- Developer Guide/API:
- *MEF W123.1 - work in progress - ready for CfC#1
- Business Requirements:
- Inventory:
- Business Requirements:
- MEF 81, MEF 81.0.1 - Published Standard
- Developer Guide/API
- *MEF W116.1 - work in progress - ready for CfC#1
- Business Requirements:
- Trouble Ticket:
- Business Requirements:
- MEF 113 - Published Standard
- Developer Guide/API
- *MEF W124.1 - Trouble Ticket - work in progress - ready for CfC#1
- *MEF W137.1 - Appointment - work in progress - ready for CfC#1
- Business Requirements:
- Billing:
- Business Requirements:
- MEF 134 - Published Standard
- Developer Guide/API
- *MEF W141 - work in progress - ready for CfC#1
- Business Requirements:
- Product Specifications:
- MEF 106 - Access E-Line - Published Standard
- MEF 125 - Subscriber Ethernet (EPL, EPLAN, EPTREE, EVPL, EVPLAN, EVPTREE) - Published Standard
- MEF 125.0.1 - Amendment to Subscriber Ethernet - Published Standard
- MEF 139 - Basic and Advanced Internet Access - Published Standard
- Security:
- MEF 128.1 - Published Standard
For high-level information about the release compatibility and roadmap please visit: LSO Marketplace
For details on the maturity map and the roadmap for future releases please refer to LSO Sonata SDK Home Page on the MEF WIKI.
This SDK contains the following items:
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- Copyright 2022 MEF ForumLICENSE
- Contains a copy of the Apache 2.0 licenseREADME
- This fileproductApi
- Definitions of the APIs - yaml files with schemasdocumentation
- All related standards and Developer GuidesproductApi
- API-related documentation - API Developer GuidesproductSchema
- Product-related documentation - Product schema guidessupportingStandards
- The rest of the documents and standards.
ProductSchema
- Product Specification schemasgenerated
staticBinding
- No longer provided - please visit LSO Marketplace to use self-blending possibility.security
- A not normative version of the standard APIs including the security profiles as required by MEF 128.1. Provided for evaluation.
Issues should be reported with the use of GitHub issues. Questions and feedback should be asked either at Sonata SDK Discussions or directly to community_manager@mef.net.
NOTE: All artifacts included in this repository have line numbers. When referring to specific content in any of these artifacts, please quote the line numbers to which you are referring.
The MEF LSO Sonata SDK is released under the Apache 2.0 license.
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