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Introduction
OLA stands for Open L2 API. It is a programmable interface normalizing card processing (L2) services required by a payment application (L3).
Important: this interface has been designed from a Nexo Fast perspective. OLA is a global initiative aiming to cover a missing key element in the payment ecosystem: the EMV L2 API. However, OLA is generic enough to support any kind of payment dynamic beyond Nexo implementations.
Principles
Interacting with a L2 stack is based a simple principles:
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A payment application detects whether a contact or contactless application will be triggerred
A payment application implements the logic to select a final application based on OLA services
A payment application configures the EMV parameters based on the final selection
Architecture
OLA aims:
To break dependencies between different integration levels and L2 implementations
To fill the gap between different objectives of testability (usually dependent on the context of integration)
To normalize L2 API beyond certificatibility objectives
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API
See Developer's Guide for more details on OLA API.
Interface | Description |
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ola_implem.h | This interface presents callback structures to integrate OLA with a minimum zero dependency from platform |
ola.h | This interface presents different administrative services |
ola_emv.h | This interface presents common services required to support contact and contactless card processing |
ola_publickey.h | This interface allows a payment application to intialize a L2 stack with a set of public keys required to execute an EMV transaction flow (contact and contactless) |
ola_contact.h | This interface is meant to support contact transaction flow |
ola_contactless.h | This interface is meant to support contactless transaction flow |
ola_tags_dictionary.h | This header lists all the tags that are specific to Nexo Fast and consequently subject to a translation for further indexation in the L2 stack |
ola_terminal.h | Deprecated from OLA 2.x versions |
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