Gate: Connect Sharing State with One-to-One Relation to Generic Business Partners

[alexsilva-CGI]

Add a field to link to the generic Business Partner by databaseID.

Currently, when upserting an Legal Entity, Site or Address, an new row is created in the Sharing_States table, with the corresponding BusinessPartnerType and ExternalID from the upserted L/S/A.

Regarding the new Generic Business Partner, it will not have an BusinessPartnerType, so this field cannot be used in a creation of an new Sharing State, only the ExternalID.

Current question is if the BusinessPartnerType in the sharing state should be deprecated regarding this?

Solution: BusinessPartnerType will be optional on Sharing_States. Direct connection between Sharing State and Generic Business Partner will be done by the ExternalID.

[martinfkaeser]

@nicoprow
It's not clear how SharingState and BusinessPartner should exactly be linked because for every externalId there is just one SharingState but two BusinessPartners in different stages.

[nicoprow]

@nicoprow It's not clear how SharingState and BusinessPartner should exactly be linked because for every externalId there is just one SharingState but two BusinessPartners in different stages.

In my opinion business partners in different stages should share the same sharing state. I think we already mentioned before that there is merit in the idea to rename sharing state to business partner and the current business partner to business partner stage. In my opinion this is a change that we could do after migrating the typed LSA business partners to the generic business partner model.

[nicoprow]

At this moment we do not intend to support L/S/A endpoints entering the golden record process through the orchestrator. For this reason attaching L/S/A to the service logic is not needed.