Accounting Model

The Accounting Model is based on the concept of Usage Record (UR).

Accounting Usage Records Hierarchy

Interfaces

• Usage Record
• Single Usage Record
• Aggregated Usage Record

Abstract Implementation

• Basic Usage Record

Interfaces

Usage Record

This is the very basic interface to respect for every Usage Record. It mainly define the generic access methods. In particular:

• Getter and Setter for basic fields;
• Generic Key-Value method both to set and retrieve a single value (key:String, value:Comparable<? extends Serializable>);
• Generic Map<String, Comparable<? extends Serializable>> to set all property at once.

Single Usage Record

Used to identify if an UsageRecord is referred to a single operation to account.

Common SingleUsageRecord fields:

• id
• consumerId
• creationTime
• scope
• operationResult

Fields derived from UsageRecord implementation type (internal use only):

• usageRecordType

Aggregated Usage Record

Used to identify if an UsageRecord is referred to the aggregation of one (degenerate case) or more UsageRecords becoming from different accounting operations.

This interface define additional methods which allow to retry information regarding

• how many SingleUsageRecords were aggregated
• the time interval related to the aggregated SingleUsageRecords

Abstract Implementation

Basic Usage Record

This is an abstract class which implements the UsageRecord interface and moreover contains basic functionality to reduce the amount of time and lines of code to create a new type of Usage Records. It uses extensively decorators and

Even if is not strictly mandatory, the developers is strongly encouraged to inherits from this base class to create a new UsageRecord, so that he/she can take advance of validations and harmonization facility provided.