ETSI ES 201 915-11 V1.4.1 (2003-07)

Open Service Access (OSA); Application Programming Interface (API); Part 11: Account Management SCF (Parlay 3)

RES/SPAN-120095-11

Odprti dostop do storitve (OSA) – Vmesnik za aplikacijsko programiranje (API) – 11. del: Upravljanje obračuna SCF

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 28-Jul-2003
• Technical Committee: SPAN 12 - Applications Interfaces for Service Providers and Network Operators
• Current Stage: 12 - Completion
• Due Date: 08-Aug-2003
• Completion Date: 29-Jul-2003
• Ref Project: SIST ES 201 915-11 V1.4.1:2005 - Open Service Access (OSA); Application Programming Interface (API); Part 11: Account Management SCF (Parlay 3)

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ETSI ES 201 915-11 V1.4.1 (2003-07)
ETSI Standard


Open Service Access (OSA);
Application Programming Interface (API);
Part 11: Account Management SCF
(Parlay 3)



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RES/SPAN-120095-11
Keywords
API, OSA, IDL, UML
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Contents
Intellectual Property Rights.5
Foreword.5
1 Scope.6
2 References.6
3 Definitions and abbreviations.6
3.1 Definitions.6
3.2 Abbreviations.6
4 Account Management SCF .7
4.1 General requirements on support of methods.7
5 Sequence Diagrams.7
5.1 Standard Transaction History Retrieval .7
5.2 Standard Query Handling.8
5.3 Standard Notification handling.9
6 Class Diagrams.10
7 The Service Interface Specifications.11
7.1 Interface Specification Format .11
7.1.1 Interface Class.11
7.1.2 Method descriptions.11
7.1.3 Parameter descriptions.12
7.1.4 State Model.12
7.2 Base Interface.12
7.2.1 Interface Class IpInterface .12
7.3 Service Interfaces.12
7.3.1 Overview.12
7.4 Generic Service Interface .12
7.4.1 Interface Class IpService .12
8 Account Management Interface Classes .13
8.1 Interface Class IpAccountManager .13
8.2 Interface Class IpAppAccountManager .17
9 State Transition Diagrams.19
9.1 State Transition Diagrams for IpAccountManager.19
9.1.1 Active State.19
9.1.2 Notifications created State .19
10 Account Management Service Properties .19
11 Data Definitions.20
11.1 Account Management Data Definitions .20
11.1.1 IpAppAccountManager.20
11.1.2 IpAppAccountManagerRef.20
11.1.3 IpAccountManager.20
11.1.4 IpAccountManagerRef.20
11.1.5 TpBalanceQueryError.21
11.1.6 TpChargingEventName.21
11.1.7 TpBalanceInfo.21
11.1.8 TpChargingEventInfo.22
11.1.9 TpChargingEventCriteria.22
11.1.10 TpChargingEventNameSet.22
11.1.11 TpChargingEventCriteriaResult.22
11.1.12 TpChargingEventCriteriaResultSet.22
11.1.13 TpBalance.23
11.1.14 TpBalanceSet.23
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11.1.15 TpTransactionHistory.23
11.1.16 TpTransactionHistorySet.23
11.1.17 TpTransactionHistoryStatus.23
12 Exception Classes.24
Annex A (normative): OMG IDL Description of Account Management SCF .25
Annex B (informative): Contents of 3GPP OSA R4 Account Management .26
Annex C (informative): Record of changes .27
C.1 Interfaces.27
C.1.1 New.27
C.1.2 Deprecated.27
C.1.3 Removed.27
C.2 Methods.27
C.2.1 New.27
C.2.2 Deprecated.27
C.2.3 Modified.28
C.2.4 Removed.28
C.3 Data Definitions.28
C.3.1 New.28
C.3.2 Modified.28
C.3.3 Removed.28
C.4 Service Properties.28
C.4.1 New.28
C.4.2 Deprecated.29
C.4.3 Modified.29
C.4.4 Removed.29
C.5 Exceptions.29
C.5.1 New.29
C.5.2 Modified.29
C.5.3 Removed.29
C.6 Others.29
History .30

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Intellectual Property Rights
IPRs essential or potentially essential to the present document may have been declared to ETSI. The information
pertaining to these essential IPRs, if any, is publicly available for ETSI members and non-members, and can be found
in ETSI SR 000 314: "Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs); Essential, or potentially Essential, IPRs notified to ETSI in
respect of ETSI standards", which is available from the ETSI Secretariat. Latest updates are available on the ETSI Web
server (http://webapp.etsi.org/IPR/home.asp).
Pursuant to the ETSI IPR Policy, no investigation, including IPR searches, has been carried out by ETSI. No guarantee
can be given as to the existence of other IPRs not referenced in ETSI SR 000 314 (or the updates on the ETSI Web
server) which are, or may be, or may become, essential to the present document.
Foreword
This ETSI Standard (ES) has been produced by ETSI Technical Committee Services and Protocols for Advanced
Networks (SPAN).
The present document is part 11 of a multi-part deliverable covering Open Service Access (OSA); Application
Programming Interface (API), as identified below. The API specification (ES 201 915) is structured in the following
parts:
Part 1: "Overview";
Part 2: "Common Data Definitions";
Part 3: "Framework";
Part 4: "Call Control SCF";
Part 5: "User Interaction SCF";
Part 6: "Mobility SCF";
Part 7: "Terminal Capabilities SCF";
Part 8: "Data Session Control SCF";
Part 9: "Generic Messaging SCF";
Part 10: "Connectivity Manager SCF";
Part 11: "Account Management SCF";
Part 12: "Charging SCF".
The present document has been defined jointly between ETSI, The Parlay Group (http://www.parlay.org) and the 3GPP,
in co-operation with a number of JAIN™ Community (http://www.java.sun.com/products/jain) member companies.
The present document forms part of the Parlay 3.3 set of specifications.
The present document is equivalent to 3GPP TS 29.198-11 V4.4.0 (Release 4).
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1 Scope
The present document is part 11 of the Stage 3 specification for an Application Programming Interface (API) for Open
Service Access (OSA).
The OSA specifications define an architecture that enables application developers to make use of network functionality
through an open standardised interface, i.e. the OSA APIs.
The present document specifies the Account Management Service Capability Feature (SCF) aspects of the interface. All
aspects of the Account Management SCF are defined here, these being:
• Sequence Diagrams
• Class Diagrams
• Interface specification plus detailed method descriptions
• State Transition diagrams
• Data Definitions
• IDL Description of the interfaces
The process by which this task is accomplished is through the use of object modelling techniques described by the
Unified Modelling Language (UML).
2 References
The references listed in clause 2 of ES 201 915-1 contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute
provisions of the present document.
ETSI ES 201 915-1: "Open Service Access (OSA); Application Programming Interface (API); Part 1: Overview
(Parlay 3)".
3 Definitions and abbreviations
3.1 Definitions
For the purposes of the present document, the terms and definitions given in ES 201 915-1 apply.
3.2 Abbreviations
For the purposes of the present document, the abbreviations defined in ES 201 915-1 apply.
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4 Account Management SCF
The following clauses describe each aspect of the Account Management Service Capability Feature (SCF).
The order is as follows:
• The Sequence diagrams give the reader a practical idea of how each of the SCF is implemented.
• The Class relationships clause show how each of the interfaces applicable to the SCF, relate to one another.
• The Interface specification clause describes in detail each of the interfaces shown within the Class diagram
part.
• The State Transition Diagrams (STD) show the transition between states in the SCF. The states and transitions
are well-defined; either methods specified in the Interface specification or events occurring in the underlying
networks cause state transitions.
• The Data Definitions clause shows a detailed expansion of each of the data types associated with the methods
within the classes. Note that some data types are used in other methods and classes and are therefore defined
within the Common Data types part of the present document.
4.1 General requirements on support of methods
An implementation of this API which supports or implements a method described in the present document, shall
support or implement the functionality described for that method, for at least one valid set of values for the parameters
of that method.
Where a method is not supported by an implementation of a Service interface, the exception
P_METHOD_NOT_SUPPORTED shall be returned to any call of that method.
Where a method is not supported by an implementation of an Application interface, a call to that method shall be
possible, and no exception shall be returned.
5 Sequence Diagrams
5.1 Standard Transaction History Retrieval
: :
IpAppAccountManager IpAccountManager
1: retrieveTransactionHistoryReq( )
2: retrieveTransactionHistoryRes( )

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1: This message is used by the application to retrieve a transaction history for a certain subscriber's account.
2: This method passes the result of the transaction history retrieval request for a specific user to its callback
object.
5.2 Standard Query Handling
: IpAppAccountManager : IpAccountManager
Application is re que sting to query
AAppplpliiccaattiioon in iss r ree qquuee ssttiinngg t too qu queerryy
the balance
tthhe be baallaancncee
1: queryBalanceReq( )
2: queryBalanceRes( )
Application is reque sting to query the
balance, but there is at least one error in the
parameters that is detected by the
IpAccountManager service.
3: queryBalanceReq( )
Application is requesting to query the
balance, but a network error occurs
4: queryBalanceReq( )
5: queryBalanceErr( )

1: This message is used to query the balance of the account of one or several users.
2: This message passes the result of the balance query for one or several users to its callback object.
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3: This scenario shows the case where at least one error in the parameters of the message is detected by the
IpAccountManager object. An exception will be thrown.
4: This scenario shows the case where a network error occurs.
5: This message passes the error of the balance query. No exception is thrown.
5.3 Standard Notification handling
: IpAppAccountManager : IpAccountManager
1: c reateNo tifi cati on( )
2: reportNotification( )
3: getNotification( )
4: changeNotification( )
5: reportNotification( )
6: destroyNotification( )

1: This message is used by the application to request notifications from the IpAccountManager service on certain
criteria for one or several users.
2: This message is used by the IpAccountManager service to report a charging event that meets the criteria set in
the createNotification message.
3: The application can request the current criteria set in the IpAccountManager service by invoking the
getNotification method.
4: This message is used by the application to change the criteria initially created by createNotification, and
previously obtained by getNotification.
5: This message is used by the IpAccountManager service to report a charging event that meets the new criteria.
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6: This method is used by the application to disable the charging notifications.
6 Class Diagrams
IpInterface
<>
IpAppAccountManager
reportNotification()
queryBalanceRes()
queryBalanceErr()
retrieveTransactionHistoryRes()
retrieveTransactionHistoryErr()
<>
<>
IpAccountManager
createNotification()
destroyNotification()
queryBalanceReq()
changeNotification()
getNotification()
retrieveTransactionHistoryReq()

Figure 1: Application Interfaces
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IpService
setCallback()
setCallbackWithSessionID()
<>
IpAccountManager
(from am)
createNotification()
destroyNotification()
queryBalanceReq()
changeNotification()
getNotification()
retrieveTransactionHistoryReq()

Figure 2: Service Interfaces
7 The Service Interface Specifications
7.1 Interface Specification Format
This clause defines the interfaces, methods and parameters that form a part of the API specification. The Unified
Modelling Language (UML) is used to specify the interface classes. The general format of an interface specification is
described below.
7.1.1 Interface Class
This shows a UML interface class description of the methods supported by that interface, and the relevant parameters
and types. The Service and Framework interfaces for enterprise-based client applications are denoted by classes with
name Ip. The callback interfaces to the applications are denoted by classes with name IpApp. For
the interfaces between a Service and the Framework, the Service interfaces are typically denoted by classes with name
IpSvc, while the Framework interfaces are denoted by classes with name IpFw
7.1.2 Method descriptions
Each method (API method “call”) is described. Both synchronous and asynchronous methods are used in the API.
Asynchronous methods are identified by a 'Req' suffix for a method request, and, if applicable, are served by
asynchronous methods identified by either a 'Res' or 'Err' suffix for method results and errors, respectively. To handle
responses and reports, the application or service developer must implement the relevant IpApp or
IpSvc interfaces to provide the callback mechanism.
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7.1.3 Parameter descriptions
Each method parameter and its possible values are described. Parameters described as 'in' represent those that must have
a value when the method is called. Those described as 'out' are those that contain the return result of the method when
the method returns.
7.1.4 State Model
If relevant, a state model is shown to illustrate the states of the objects that implement the described interface.
7.2 Base Interface
7.2.1 Interface Class IpInterface
All application, framework and service interfaces inherit from the following interface. This API Base Interface does not
provide any additional methods.
<>
IpInterface


7.3 Service Interfaces
7.3.1 Overview
The Service Interfaces provide the interfaces into the capabilities of the underlying network - such as call control, user
interaction, messaging, mobility and connectivity management.
The interfaces that are implemented by the services are denoted as 'Service Interface'. The corresponding interfaces that
must be implemented by the application (e.g. for API callbacks) are denoted as 'Application Interface'.
7.4 Generic Service Interface
7.4.1 Interface Class IpService
Inherits from: IpInterface
All service interfaces inherit from the following interface.
<>
IpService


setCallback (appInterface : in IpInterfaceRef) : void
setCallbackWithSessionID (appInterface : in IpInterfaceRef, sessionID : in TpSessionID) : void


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Method
setCallback()
This method specifies the reference address of the callback interface that a service uses to invoke methods on the
application. It is not allowed to invoke this method on an interface that uses SessionIDs.
Parameters
appInterface : in IpInterfaceRef
Specifies a reference to the application interface, which is used for callbacks
Raises
TpCommonExceptions, P_INVALID_INTERFACE_TYPE


Method
setCallbackWithSessionID()
This method specifies the reference address of the application's callback interface that a service uses for interactions
associated with a specific session ID: e.g. a specific call, or call leg. It is not allowed to invoke this method on an
interface that does not use SessionIDs.
Parameters
appInterface : in IpInterfaceRef
Specifies a reference to the application interface, which is used for callbacks
sessionID : in TpSessionID
Specifies the session for which the service can invoke the application's callback interface.
Raises
TpCommonExceptions, P_INVALID_SESSION_ID, P_INVALID_INTERFACE_TYPE

8 Account Management Interface Classes
8.1 Interface Class IpAccountManager
Inherits from: IpService.
The account manager interface provides methods for monitoring accounts. Applications can use this interface to enable
or disable charging-related event notifications and to query account balances.
This interface shall be implemented by an Account Management SCF. The queryBalanceReq() method, or the
retrieveTransactionHistoryReq() method , or both the createNotification() and des
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