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Partial Validation (Orchard, Riley)


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How can unnecessary data validation be avoided?  

Problem

The generic capabilities provided by agnostic services sometimes result in service contracts that impose unnecessary data and validation upon consumer programs.

Solution

A consumer program can be designed to only validate the relevant subset of the
data and ignore the remainder.

Application

The application of this pattern is specific to the technology used for the consumer implementation. For example, with Web services, XPath can be used to filter out unnecessary data prior to validation.

Impacts

Extra design-time effort is required
and the additional runtime data
filtering-related logic can reduce the
processing gains of avoiding
unnecessary validation.

Principles

Standardized Service Contract, Service Loose Coupling

Architecture

Composition
 
Because the irrelevant data is ignored prior to validation, it is discarded earlier and avoids imposing unnecessary validation-related processing upon the consumer.
Audio Podcast
This pattern is discussed as part of the audio podcast:

Service Contract-Related SOA Design Patterns
 

Related Patterns in This Catalog

Service Agent (Erl), Service Facade (Erl), Validation Abstraction (Erl)


Related Service-Oriented Computing Goals

Increased Intrinsic Interoperability, Reduced IT Burden


SOA Design Patterns This page contains excerpts from:

SOA Design Patterns by Thomas Erl

Foreword by Grady Booch

With contributions from David Chappell, Jason Hogg, Anish Karmarkar, Mark Little, David Orchard, Satadru Roy,
Thomas Rischbeck, Arnaud Simon, Clemens Utschig, Dennis Wisnosky, and others.

(ISBN: 0136135161, Hardcover, Full-Color, 400+ Illustrations, 865 pages)

For more information about this book, visit
www.soabooks.com.
Web Service Contract Design and Versioning for SOA This pattern is also discussed in the following title:

Web Service Contract Design and Versioning for SOA
by Thomas Erl, Anish Karmarkar, Priscilla Walmsley, Hugo Haas, Umit Yalcinalp, Canyang Kevin Liu,
David Orchard, Andre Tost, James Pasley

Foreword by David Chappell

(ISBN: 013613517X, Hardcover, 826 pages)

For more information about this book, visit
www.soabooks.com.
The Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl
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