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CharacteristicSpecification

CharacteristicSpecification schema from TM Forum API

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tmf620-product-catalog-characteristic-specification-schema.json Raw ↑
{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tm-forum/refs/heads/main/json-schema/tmf620-product-catalog-characteristic-specification-schema.json",
  "title": "CharacteristicSpecification",
  "description": "CharacteristicSpecification schema from TM Forum API",
  "allOf": [
    {
      "$ref": "#/components/schemas/Extensible"
    },
    {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "This class defines a characteristic specification.",
      "properties": {
        "id": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Unique ID for the characteristic"
        },
        "name": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "A word, term, or phrase by which this characteristic specification is known and distinguished from other characteristic specifications."
        },
        "valueType": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "A kind of value that the characteristic can take on, such as numeric, text and so forth"
        },
        "description": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "A narrative that explains the CharacteristicSpecification."
        },
        "configurable": {
          "type": "boolean",
          "description": "If true, the Boolean indicates that the target Characteristic is configurable"
        },
        "validFor": {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/TimePeriod"
        },
        "minCardinality": {
          "type": "integer",
          "description": "The minimum number of instances a CharacteristicValue can take on. For example, zero to five phone numbers in a group calling plan, where zero is the value for the minCardinality."
        },
        "maxCardinality": {
          "type": "integer",
          "description": "The maximum number of instances a CharacteristicValue can take on. For example, zero to five phone numbers in a group calling plan, where five is the value for the maxCardinality."
        },
        "isUnique": {
          "type": "boolean",
          "description": "Specifies if the value of this characteristic is unique across all entities instantiated from the specification that uses this characteristc. For example, consider a ProductSpecification for a set-top box, with a CharacteristicSpecification cardID. Each set-top box must have a different value for cardID, so this isUnique attribute would be set to true for the characteristic."
        },
        "regex": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "A rule or principle represented in regular expression used to derive the value of a characteristic value."
        },
        "extensible": {
          "type": "boolean",
          "description": "An indicator that specifies that the values for the characteristic can be extended by adding new values when instantiating a characteristic for a resource."
        },
        "@valueSchemaLocation": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "This (optional) field provides a link to the schema describing the value type."
        },
        "charSpecRelationship": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "$ref": "#/components/schemas/CharacteristicSpecificationRelationship"
          },
          "description": "An aggregation, migration, substitution, dependency or exclusivity relationship between/among Specification Characteristics."
        },
        "characteristicValueSpecification": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "$ref": "#/components/schemas/CharacteristicValueSpecification"
          },
          "description": "A CharacteristicValueSpecification object is used to define a set of attributes, each of which can be assigned to a corresponding set of attributes in a CharacteristicSpecification object. The values of the attributes in the CharacteristicValueSpecification object describe the values of the attributes that a corresponding Characteristic object can take on."
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "discriminator": {
    "propertyName": "@type",
    "mapping": {
      "CharacteristicSpecification": "#/components/schemas/CharacteristicSpecification"
    }
  }
}

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