Add actions assembly to encode an action (i.e. approval) and its role…

…, party, and approval date. (#1052) (#1429)

* Create actions assembly in OSCAL metadata model.
* Address PR feedback to wrap up.

#1052 (review)
#1052 (comment)

Co-authored-by: Al S <[email protected]>

src/metaschema/oscal_metadata_metaschema.xml

@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@
             <assembly ref="responsible-party" max-occurs="unbounded">
                 <group-as name="responsible-parties" in-json="ARRAY"/>
             </assembly>
+            <assembly ref="action" max-occurs="unbounded">
+                <group-as name="actions" in-json="ARRAY"/>
+            </assembly>
             <field ref="remarks" in-xml="WITH_WRAPPER"/>
         </model>
         <constraint>
@@ -759,6 +762,59 @@
             </index-has-key>
         </constraint>
     </define-assembly>
+
+    <define-assembly name="action">
+        <formal-name>Action</formal-name>
+        <description>An action applied by a role within a given party to the content.</description>
+        <define-flag name="uuid" as-type="uuid" required="yes">
+            <formal-name>Action Universally Unique Identifier</formal-name>
+            <description>A unique identifier that can be used to reference this defined action elsewhere in an OSCAL document. A UUID should be consistently used for a given location across revisions of the document.</description>
+        </define-flag>
+        <define-flag name="date" as-type="dateTime-with-timezone">
+            <formal-name>Action Occurrence Date</formal-name>
+            <description>The date and time when the action occurred.</description>
+        </define-flag>
+        <define-flag name="type" as-type="token" required="yes">
+            <formal-name>Action Type</formal-name>
+            <description>The type of action documented by the assembly, such as an approval.</description>
+        </define-flag>
+        <define-flag name="system" as-type="uri" required="yes">
+            <formal-name>Action Type System</formal-name>
+            <description>Specifies the action type system used.</description>
+            <remarks>
+                <p>Provides a means to segment the value space for the <code>type</code>, so that different organizations and individuals can assert control over the allowed <code>action</code>'s <code>type</code>. This allows the semantics associated with a given <code>type</code> to be defined on an organization-by-organization basis.</p>
+                <p>An organization MUST use a URI that they have control over. e.g., a domain registered to the organization in a URI, a registered uniform resource names (URN) namespace.</p>
+            </remarks>
+         </define-flag>
+        <model>
+            <assembly ref="property" max-occurs="unbounded">
+                <group-as name="props" in-json="ARRAY"/>
+            </assembly>
+            <assembly ref="link" max-occurs="unbounded">
+                <group-as name="links" in-json="ARRAY"/>
+            </assembly>
+            <assembly ref="responsible-party" max-occurs="unbounded">
+                <group-as name="responsible-parties" in-json="ARRAY"/>
+            </assembly>
+            <field ref="remarks" in-xml="WITH_WRAPPER"/>
+        </model>
+        <constraint>
+            <index-has-key name="index-metadata-role-id" target="responsible-party">
+                <key-field target="@role-id"/>
+            </index-has-key>
+            <index-has-key name="index-metadata-party-uuid" target="responsible-party">
+                <key-field target="party-uuid"/>
+            </index-has-key>
+            <allowed-values target="./system/@value" allow-other="yes">
+                <enum value="http://csrc.nist.gov/ns/oscal">This value identifies action types defined in the NIST OSCAL namespace.</enum>
+             </allowed-values>
+             <allowed-values target="./type[has-oscal-namespace('http://csrc.nist.gov/ns/oscal')]/@value">
+                <enum value="approval">An approval of a document instance's content.</enum>
+                <enum value="request-changes">A request from the responisble party or parties to change the content.</enum>
+            </allowed-values>
+        </constraint>
+    </define-assembly>
+
     <define-assembly name="responsible-role">
         <formal-name>Responsible Role</formal-name>
         <description>A reference to one or more roles with responsibility for performing a function relative to the containing object.</description>