18 Checklist

This section contains a short summary checklist to use when creating extensions to Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper:

• When creating the management interface, consider if the management operations and attributes should be cluster-wide or local.

• Make sure to follow the plug-in naming convention: Plugin_web service interface part_network protocol.

• Make sure to implement customMatch of the PluginInstance (or ManagedPluginInstance) to be sure that requests end up in the correct plug-in. This is important when there are multiple plug-ins for the same communication service.

• Create exception types that are very specific to various error scenarios. This will allow fine grain control of the alarms that are generated.

• Have a clean separation between the north and the south side of the plug-in.

• Make sure to return all north interfaces (callback included) and souths interfaces when implementing the getNorthInterfaces() and getSouthInterfaces() of PluginInstance.

• Make sure to implement the resolveAppInstanceGroupdId() method for each PluginSouth instance (if applicable).

• Annotate each parameter in the south object methods that you need to have when aspect calls back the resolveAppInstanceGroupId() or the prepareRequestContext() methods.

• Consider what additional EDR fields you need to add. Annotate all the methods you want to be woven using the @Edr annotation.

• Annotate the specific arguments you want to see in the EDR for each annotated methods. Use either @ContextKey or @ContextTranslate depending on the kind of argument.

• Add all the EDRs you are triggering to the EDR descriptor.