Batch Based Interaction

Glossary definition: A package of information communicated from one application to another.

Details

An Interaction which consists of:

1. a Batch Wrapper, and
2. one or more Batch Based Interactions or Message Based Interactions.

A Batch Based Interaction (as a whole) has no Receiver Responsibilities, only Message Based Interactions contained within the Batch Wrapper have Receiver Responsibilities.

FAQ

• The creation of the XML-schema requires some manual editing, see Batch Wrapper Schema

• What would an example instance look like?

<MCCI_IN200100>
       <id/>
       <creationTime/>
       <responseModeCode/>
       ...
       <POLB_IN111000>
               ...
       </POLB_IN111000>
       <POLB_IN111007>
               ...
       </POLB_IN111007>
       <MCCI_IN200100>
               ...
       </MCCI_IN200100>
       ...
</MCCI_IN200100>

Note: the children of e.g. POLB_IN111000 are just as if you were sending that interaction by itself

Schema Validation

• Should the schema for the batch interaction (MCCI_IN200100) report validation errors for the interactions contained within it?

1. The contents of a batch interaction can be any combination of any message-based-interaction or batch-based-interaction. As such the creation of a schema for a batch interaction which validates all possible content is problematic.
2. A Batch wrapper is currently viewed as something one solely uses to group interactions for transmission purposes. The expected behaviour is that a receiver strips off the batch wrapper, and processes the individual interactions within the batch as if they had been received as separate message instances.

Both things lead to a batch interaction schema that does NOT validate its contents.