Adjust RelatedInstancesValidation to enable child service requests

Issue-ID: SO-3811
Signed-off-by: Jozsef Csongvai <jozsef.csongvai@bell.ca>
Change-Id: I135353f99896f1c64529adac1aa2b096388fd6e6

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mso-api-handlers/mso-api-handler-infra/src/main/java/org/onap/so/apihandlerinfra/validation/RelatedInstancesValidation.java b/mso-api-handlers/mso-api-handler-infra/src/main/java/org/onap/so/apihandlerinfra/validation/RelatedInstancesValidation.java
index 3b87d91d3f..801065fdde 100644
--- a/mso-api-handlers/mso-api-handler-infra/src/main/java/org/onap/so/apihandlerinfra/validation/RelatedInstancesValidation.java
+++ b/mso-api-handlers/mso-api-handler-infra/src/main/java/org/onap/so/apihandlerinfra/validation/RelatedInstancesValidation.java
@@ -185,7 +185,10 @@ public class RelatedInstancesValidation implements ValidationRule {
                         && !(requestScope.equalsIgnoreCase(ModelType.instanceGroup.toString())
                                 && action == Action.createInstance)) {
                     isRelatedServiceInstancePresent = true;
-                    if (!relatedInstance.getInstanceId().equals(sir.getServiceInstanceId())) {
+                    // InstanceDirection.source indicates child service and this validation is for all
+                    // except child services.
+                    if (!InstanceDirection.source.equals(relatedInstance.getInstanceDirection())
+                            && !relatedInstance.getInstanceId().equals(sir.getServiceInstanceId())) {
                         throw new ValidationException(
                                 "serviceInstanceId matching the serviceInstanceId in request URI");
                     }