Naming Constraints And Convention

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We recommend to use lower camel case for all names except structure data types.

Name	Examples	Name Constraints	Recommended Naming Convention
thing
thing property	temperature, lastTemperature, latestVoltageChangeDate	The page Constraint - thing property name does not exist.	Name provides information about content of property: <subject>
thing method	getTemperature, getNumberOfProcessors	The page Constraint - thing method name does not exist.	Name of method consists of action and subject, like <action><Subject>
thing event	temperatureChanged, motionDetected	The page Constraint - thing event name does not exist.	Name looks like <value><Action (VERB+ed, irreg. VERB)>
thing trigger	sendAlertOnTemperatureChanged, alarmOnMotionDetected, onTemperatureChanged	The page Constraint - thing trigger name does not exist.	Name looks like <action><On><Event>, or <on><Event> in case of single trigger for the same event
thing schedule	changeTemperature, changeTemperatureHourly, computeValue, computeValueDaily	The page Constraint - thing schedule name does not exist.	Name looks like <action><Optional Details><Optional Timing Details>
thing connection	mqtt, tcp, tcpPort80	The page Constraint - thing connection name does not exist.	Name looks like <protocol><Optional Specs>
template
template version
product
product serial number	12ABC, 12-34-56, 1234ab	only alphanumeric characters, _ (underscore) and - (minus)
structure data type	HddInformation, TemperatureStatistics, Location	alphanumeric start with a capital letter
structure data type attribute	longitude, numberOfProcessors	The page Constraint - structure data type attribute name does not exist.	Name provides information about attribute subject: <subject>
data type package	com.mypackage.util, org.m2m.device, com.gadgetkeeper.service	start with a letter only alphanumeric characters and .(dot) as a package delimiter all lower case	it's advised for companies to use their reversed Internet domain name to begin their package names - for example, com.example.mypackage for a package named mypackage created by a programmer at example.com.