Synchronous response to client who advertises accepts_incomplete

[jim-minter]

I think that reading the spec, it is permitted (implementation specific) for a broker with asynchronous capabilities to decide to send a synchronous provision/deprovision response to a client, regardless of whether the client advertises accepts_incomplete or not. I think that at the moment osb-checker doesn't bear this in mind.

[leonwanghui]

@norshtein @zhongyi-zhang Any thought?

[zhongyi-zhang]

That's true. But I think the checker does allow async or sync response. Provision: https://github.com/openservicebrokerapi/osb-checker/blob/master/2.13/tests/test/test.js#L237 Deprovision: https://github.com/openservicebrokerapi/osb-checker/blob/master/2.13/tests/test/test.js#L501 And async bind is not yet supported in OSB API 2.13.

Is there anything I missed?

[leonwanghui]

From my perspective, here is the current sync/async support matrix:

Broker Support	Config	accept_incomplete	Result
async	sync	false	-
async	async	true	✔️
sync	sync	false	✔️
sync	async	true	✔️

So I think what @jim-minter trying to express is we should support the first option because logically it's right but according to spec Service Brokers that cannot guarantee completion of the operation with the response SHOULD implement the asynchronous response, IMO it's broker authors' duty to guarantee the consistency between broker capabilities and config file.

Any thought?