To test my understanding: you are suggesting that the 'retained' sate
be removed from IPP, the 'terminating' state in IPP be renamed
'canceled', and the 'needsAttention' state ne removed from the Job
MIB. Correct?
Note, this will have the side effect of requiring that the
jobStateReasons1 attribute in the Job MIB become mandatory (for sake
of the 'printer-stopped' bit). The original motivation for the
'needsAttention' state was that a job monitoring application could
quickly determine that the device needs operator intervention without
having to poll the job state reasons. Even so, I am in favor of making
the change in order for the IPP and JMP job state models to be as
identical as possible. I just want to make sure everyone is aware of
the trade off being made here. If this change is agreed to, then
should we move the newly-mandatory jobStateReasons1 attribute to the
job table?
Thanks,
Angelo
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From: jmp-owner@pwg.org
To: ipp@pwg.org; jmp@pwg.org
Subject: JMP> MOD - simplified legal state transition diagram
Date: Wednesday, May 21, 1997 12:00AM
So the simplified legal state transition diagram for IPP and JMP would become,
following Bob's proposal:
New state
Old state unknown(2) pending(3) processing(4) canceled(5) completed(6)
unknown(2) yes yes
pending(3) yes yes
processing(4) yes yes yes
canceled(5) yes
completed(6) yes
A blank entry indicates impossible transitions. Self loops are not
indicated, such as a Get-Attributes operation on a job, since they aren't
a job state transition.
For IPP we need to consider which job states and job state transtions are
required for conformance and which are optional.
JMP requires that processing(4), canceled(5), and completed(6) are
mandatory, so that pending(3) is optional. What about unknown(2)?
The former needsAttention state was also mandatory, so that the
new job-state reason: printer-stopped, should become a mandator job state
reason, correct?
For IPP and JMP, all transitions into the canceled state should be required.
However, the transition from processing back to pending (a job-held situation)
is optional.