Missing /shells/{aasIdentifier}/submodels operation in OpenAPI description

[juileetikekar]

The OpenAPI Description for AssetAdministrationShellRepositoryServiceSpecification consists of operations including superpaths related to a single submodel within AAS or submodel-elements (screenshot in the end). However, it does not consists of operations for all the submodels within AAS (/shells/{aasIdentifier}/submodels).

For instance, the operation GET /shells/{aasIdentifier}/submodels will return all the submodels within an AAS.

Therefore, my question would be if the oprration "/shells/{aasIdentifier}/submodels" is missing intentionally.

[BirgitBoss]

I think this is on purpose: An AAS just contains references to submodels (i.e. just their ID), not the submodels themselves.
This is why there is no GET /shells/{aasIdentifier}/submodels but only GET /shells/{aasIdentifier}/submodel-refs