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Jacques Le Roux commented on OFBIZ-5333:
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Here is a [track to the discussion on dev 
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> Trigger for service to run upon subscription expiry
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: OFBIZ-5333
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5333
>             Project: OFBiz
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: content, order, product
>    Affects Versions: SVN trunk
>            Reporter: Ivan Cauchi
>              Labels: entity, expiry, patch, product, service, subscription
>             Fix For: SVN trunk
>
>
> This issue is a follow up of a discussion on the Ofbiz user and dev fora, 
> titled 'Subscription Functionality'.
> The main characteristics of the Ofbiz subscriptions are:
> a) the access control of the subscribed internal content is missing, and can 
> be provided by custom means. As well, subscription to content on external 
> systems needs a trigger, which can be provided through Content.serviceName.
> b) the subscription model has an inbuilt assumption that access to the 
> resource is terminated outside of the default Ofbiz, such as by a custom 
> Ofbiz process or an external process.
> The generic use case I'm thinking of is external systems providing content to 
> which a client desires to subscribe which don't have an inbuilt expiry.  
> These systems require a trigger to enable provisioning, and another trigger 
> to enable deprovisioning.
> Ofbiz can be used to manage the provision of access to such external content, 
> triggering the provisioning process through a service in Content.serviceName. 
>  What's missing is an (optional) trigger for the deprovisioning process.
> One way which we're thinking of resolving this is:
> a) to add another column to the SubscriptionResource entity, called 
> serviceNameOnExpiry (note to people that had followed the discussion on the 
> Ofbiz mailing lists: the field name has been shortened to fit the 30 
> character limit).  This would contain the service to run to trigger the 
> deprovisioning process.  If containing null, nothing would be run, and Ofbiz 
> exhibits the current default behaviour.
> b) create a new service runServiceOnSubscriptionExpiry within 
> SubscriptionServices.java, that is scheduled to run regularly, similar to the 
> existing runSubscriptionAutoReorder.  This code would check whether a 
> subscription has expired.  If so, and a service exists within 
> SubscriptionResource.serviceNameOnExpiry, and Subscription.automaticExtend=N, 
> this code runs that service.  
> This approach has the advantage of complete separation of the default and new 
> functionality with the cost of some additional database lookups.
> We will be submitting patches for this new functionality shortly.



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