Introduction

LSO Sonata SDK is the complete set of deliverables developed by the CTO in order to

1. Enable market adoption of LSO Sonata APIs in the current release of LSO Sonata SDK.
2. Support of development of additional features for the upcoming release of LSO Sonata SDK.

The current release of LSO Sonata SDK is R4 and is available on GitHub (see Latest Release section for details).

The upcoming releases of LSO Sonata SDK are: R5 which is planned for June 26^th, 2020 and R6 which is planned for October, 2020.

Any MEF member can participate in the development of each new release of LSO Sonata SDK:

• Contact the LSO Developer Community Manager (Michał Łączyński) either via GitHub or by email to let him know of your interest and to ask questions

Source: LSO Sonata Graphics

LSO Sonata SDK Release 4

Version: R4

This SDK release aligns the API schemas and definitions for Serviceability (Address Validation, Site Queries, Product Offering Qualification) and Product Inventory to the latest versions of MEF 79 and MEF 81 Draft Standards. In addition, the API schemas and definitions for Product Order are aligned with the new version of other Sonata APIs. The latest versions of MEF 79 and MEF 81 Draft Standards are included.

MEF LSO Sonata SDK core includes API definitions for the following functional areas:

• Serviceability (Address, Service Site, and Product Offering Qualification Management)
• Product Quote
• Product Order
• Product Inventory

It also holds Payload Descriptions for the following structures that are used with these APIs

• JSON representations for Product Spec descriptions (initially for MEF Access E-Line services)
• JSON representations for the UNI attributes (sourced from MEF 57.1)

SDK Repository

Core (public):

SDK Repository: https://github.com/MEF-GIT/MEF-LSO-Sonata-SDK/releases/tag/r4

API release notes: https://github.com/MEF-GIT/MEF-LSO-Sonata-SDK/blob/r4/api/R4%20release%20notes.txt

SDK Contents

The SDK contains the following items:

• COPYRIGHT - Copyright 2019 MEF Forum
• LICENSE - Contains a copy of the Apache 2.0 license
• payload_description - Common descriptors are found in this directory
  • ProductSpecDescription – Contains reference JSON schemas for product specification description.
• api - Definitions of the API are found in this directory

  • Serviceability

    • address

      • GeographicAddressManagement - 3.0.0

    • offeringQualification

      • ProductOfferingQualificationManagement - 3.0.1

      • ProductOfferingQualificationNotification - 3.0.0

    • site

      • GeographicSiteManagement - 3.0.0

  • Product Quote

    • QuoteManagement - 2.0.0

    • QuoteNotification - 1.0.0

  • Product Order

    • ProductOrderManagement - 3.0.0

    • ProductOrderNotification - 3.0.0

  • Product Inventory

    • ProductInventoryManagement - 3.0.0

• documentation - This contains the draft standards of the Business Requirements and Use Cases for
  • Address, Service Site, and Product Offering Qualification Management (MEF 79 Draft (R3))
  • Product Order Management (MEF 80 Draft (R2))
  • Product Inventory Management (MEF 81 Draft (R3))

1. Example implementation of MEF LSO Sonata APIs on Buyer side provided by Amdocs. This example code is part of the solution between a Tier1 North American operator, Amdocs and a UK provider that was put into production in April 2019.
   
   https://github.com/MEF-GIT/Example-LSO-Sonata-Buyer-Implementation (MEF Members only)

BR&UC - Business Requirements & Use Cases

IIS - Interface Implementation Specification

Underlined item indicates a release deliverable that is a delta from the previous SDK release.

LSO Sonata SDK Release 4 - (Production)

Version: R4

Date: Nov 2019

SDK Repository: https://github.com/MEF-GIT/MEF-LSO-Sonata-SDK/releases/tag/r4

Function	BR&UC	IIS		Product specs		Postman scripts	Tooling	Example code
		Spec	Swagger specs	Spec	JSON
Address Validation	MEF 79 Draft (R3)		GeographicAddressManagement - v3.0.0	N/A	N/A
Site Query	MEF 79 Draft (R3)		GeographicSiteManagement - v3.0.0	N/A	N/A
Product Offering Qualification (POQ)	MEF 79 Draft (R3)		ProductOfferingQualificationManagement - v3.0.1 ProductOfferingQualificationNotification - v3.0.0
Quoting	MEF 80 Draft (R2)		QuoteManagement - v2.0.0 QuoteNotification - v1.0.0
Product Inventory	MEF 81 Draft (R3)		ProductInventoryManagement - v3.0.0
Product Order	MEF 57.1		ProductOrderManagement - v3.0.0 ProductOrderNotification - v3.0.0		Access E-Line UNI
Trouble Ticketing
Billing

LSO Sonata SDK Release 5 - (Planned)

Version: R5

Date: June 26^th 2020

Function	BR&UC	IIS		Product specs		Postman scripts	Tooling	Example code
		Spec	Swagger specs	Spec	JSON
Address Validation	MEF 79 MEF W79.0.1		GeographicAddressManagement	N/A	N/A			Amdocs (based on R2)
Site Query	MEF 79 MEF W79.0.1		GeographicSiteManagement	N/A	N/A			Amdocs (based on R2)
Product Offering Qualification (POQ)	MEF 79 MEF W79.0.1	MEF W87 Draft (R1)	ProductOfferingQualificationManagement ProductOfferingQualificationNotification	MEF W106 Draft (R1)	Access E-Line		SonataBlendingTool	Amdocs (based on R2)
Quoting	MEF W80 Draft (R3)		QuoteManagement QuoteNotification	MEF W106 Draft (R1)	Access E-Line			Amdocs (based on R2)
Product Inventory	MEF 81 MEF 81.0.1		ProductInventoryManagement	MEF W106 Draft (R1)	Access E-Line			Amdocs (based on R2)
Product Order	MEF 57.1		ProductOrderManagement ProductOrderNotification	MEF W106 Draft (R1)	Access E-Line			Amdocs (based on R2)
Trouble Ticketing
Billing

LSO Sonata SDK Release 6 - (Planned)

Version: R6

Date: October 2020

Function	BR&UC	IIS		Product specs		Postman scripts	Tooling	Example code
		Spec	Swagger specs	Spec	JSON
Address Validation	MEF 79 MEF 79.0.1		GeographicAddressManagement	N/A	N/A			Amdocs (based on R2)
Site Query	MEF 79 MEF 79.0.1		GeographicSiteManagement	N/A	N/A			Amdocs (based on R2)
Product Offering Qualification (POQ)	MEF 79 MEF 79.0.1	MEF 87	ProductOfferingQualificationManagement ProductOfferingQualificationNotification	MEF W106 Draft (R1)	Access E-Line		SonataBlendingTool	Amdocs (based on R2)
Product Offering Qualification (POQ) On Demand	MEF W110		OnDemandProductOfferingQualificationManagement OnDemandProductOfferingQualificationNotification
Quoting	MEF 80	MEF W115	QuoteManagement QuoteNotification	MEF W106 Draft (R1)	Access E-Line			Amdocs (based on R2)
Quoting On Demand	MEF W110		QuoteManagement OnDemandQuoteNotification
Product Inventory	MEF 81 MEF 81.0.1		ProductInventoryManagement	MEF W106 Draft (R1)	Access E-Line			Amdocs (based on R2)
Product Order	MEF W57.2 Draft (R2)		ProductOrderManagement ProductOrderNotification	MEF W106 Draft (R1)	Access E-Line			Amdocs (based on R2)
Trouble Ticketing	MEF W113 Draft (R1)		TroubleTicketing
Billing

Engagement Opportunities

1. Development and use of the MEF 3.0 Developer Workshop
2. Requirements for future releases of LSO Sonata
3. Information on how they integrate LSO Sonata into OSS/BSS systems, and information on how to manage versions of the APIs
4. Scoring of consumability of each release
5. Inclusion of LSO Sonata as a requirement in RFIs to partners
6. Active marketing of LSO Sonata releases
7. Assessment of testing/certification solutions around LSO Sonata