Intents

FDC3 Intents specifications, schemas, and examples

• Extending APIs from one App to another is powerful...
• However, it requires building to a specific API ahead of time
• Standard context and intent definitions let us create workflows on the fly

FDC3 Intents define a standard set of verbs that can be used to put together common cross-application workflows on the financial desktop.

• Applications register the intents & context combination they support
• The registries support app discovery by intents and/or context
• Intents are not full RPC, Apps don’t need to enumerate every function with an intent
• FDC3 Standard intents are a limited set, organizations can create their own intents

Using Intents

Combined with FDC3 Context Data and App Directory standards, Intents enable rich service discovery on the the desktop. For example:

Directing a market data platform to show a chart

fdc3.open("my-platform","ViewChart",{
 object:"fdc3-context",
 version:"0.0.1",
 definition:"https://fdc3/schema/context/0.0.1",
 data:[
  {
    type:"instrument",
    name:"IBM",
    id:{
      ticker:"ibm"
     }
} ]});

Discovering an app that can start a chat

fdc3.open(null,"StartChat",{
 object:"fdc3-context",
 version:"0.0.1",
 definition:"https://fdc3/schema/context/0.0.1",
 data:[
  {
    type:"contact",
    name:"Nick Kolba",
    id:{
      email:"nick@openfin.co"
     }
} ]});

Discovering apps that have intents for context type "contact"

let availableContactHandlers = fdc3.resolve(null,"contact");