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-The afm-user-daemon
-===================
-
-Foreword
---------
-
-This document describes application framework user daemon fundamentals.
-FCF (Fully Conform to Specification) implementation is still under development.
-It may happen that current implementation somehow diverges with specifications.
-
-
-Introduction
-------------
-
-The daemon **afm-user-daemon** is in charge of handling
-applications on behalf of a user. Its main tasks are:
-
- - enumerate applications that end user can run
- and keep this list available on demand
-
- - start applications on behalf of end user, set user running
- environment, set user security context
-
- - list current runnable or running applications
-
- - stop (aka pause), continue (aka resume), terminate
- a running instance of a given application
-
- - transfer requests for installation/uninstallation
- of applications to the corresponding system daemon
- **afm-system-daemon**
-
-The **afm-user-daemon** takes its orders from the session
-instance of D-Bus.
-
-The figure below summarizes the situation of **afm-user-daemon** in the system.
-
- +------------------------------------------------------------+
- | User |
- | +---------------------+ |
- | +---------------------+ | Smack isolated | |
- | | D-Bus session + | APPLICATIONS | |
- | +----------+----------+ +---------+-----------+ |
- | | | |
- | | | |
- | +----------+--------------------------+-----------+ |
- | | | |
- | | afm-user-daemon | |
- | | | |
- | +----------+----------------------+----------+----+ |
- | | | : |
- | | | : |
- :================|======================|==========:=========:
- | | | : |
- | +----------+----------+ +-----+-----+ : |
- | | D-Bus system +-----+ CYNARA | : |
- | +----------+----------+ +-----+-----+ : |
- | | | : |
- | +----------+---------+ +-------+----------+----+ |
- | | afm-system-daemon +----+ SECURITY-MANAGER | |
- | +--------------------+ +-----------------------+ |
- | |
- | System |
- +------------------------------------------------------------+
-
-
-Tasks of **afm-user-daemon**
-----------------------------
-
-### Maintaining list of applications ###
-
-At start **afm-user-daemon** scans the directories containing
-applications and load in memory a list of avaliable applications
-accessible by current user.
-
-When **afm-system-daemon** installs or removes an application.
-On success it sends the signal *org.AGL.afm.system.changed*.
-When receiving such a signal, **afm-user-daemon** rebuilds its
-applications list.
-
-**afm-user-daemon** provides the data it collects about
-applications to its clients. Clients may either request the full list
-of avaliable applications or a more specific information about a
-given application.
-
-### Launching application ###
-
-**afm-user-daemon** launches application. Its builds a secure
-environment for the application before starting it within a
-secured environment.
-
-Different kind of applications can be launched.
-
-This is set using a configuration file that describes
-how to launch an application of a given kind within a given
-mode.
-
-There is two launching modes: local or remote.
-
-Launching an application locally means that
-the application and its binder are launched together.
-
-Launching application remotely translates in only launching
-the application binder. The UI by itself has to be activated
-remotely by the requested (ie: HTML5 homescreen in a browser)
-
-Once launched, running instances of application receive
-a runid that identify them.
-
-### Managing instances of running applications ###
-
-**afm-user-daemon** manages the list of applications
-that it launched.
-
-When owning the right permissions, a client can get the list
-of running instances and details about a specific
-running instance. It can also terminates, stops or
-continues a given application.
-
-### Installing and uninstalling applications ###
-
-If the client own the right permissions,
-**afm-user-daemon** delegates that task
-to **afm-system-daemon**.
-
-
-Starting **afm-user-daemon**
------------------------------
-
-**afm-user-daemon** is launched as a **systemd** service
-attached to user sessions. Normally, the service file is
-located at /usr/lib/systemd/user/afm-user-daemon.service.
-
-The options for launching **afm-user-daemon** are:
-
- -a
- --application directory
-
- Includes the given application directory to
- the database base of applications.
-
- Can be repeated.
-
- -r
- --root directory
-
- Includes root application directory or directories when
- passing multiple rootdir to
- applications database.
-
- Note that default root directory for
- applications is always added. In current version
- /usr/share/afm/applications is used as default.
-
- -m
- --mode (local|remote)
-
- Set the default launch mode.
- The default value is 'local'
-
- -d
- --daemon
-
- Daemonizes the process. It is not needed by sytemd.
-
- -q
- --quiet
-
- Reduces the verbosity (can be repeated).
-
- -v
- --verbose
-
- Increases the verbosity (can be repeated).
-
- -h
- --help
-
- Prints a short help.
-
-
-Launcher Configuration
------------------------------
-
-It contains rules for launching applications.
-When **afm-user-daemon** has to launch an application,
-it looks for launch mode (local or remote), as well as
-for the type of application describe in ***config.xml***
-widget configuration file.
-
-This tuple mode+type allows to select the adequate rule.
-
-Configuration file is **/etc/afm/afm-launch.conf**.
-
-It contains sections and rules. It can also contain comments
-and empty lines to improve readability.
-
-The separators are space and tabulation, any other character
-should have a meaning.
-
-The format is line oriented.
-The new line character separate the lines.
-
-Lines having only separators are blank lines and ignored.
-Line having character #(sharp) at first position are comment
-lines and ignored.
-
-Lines not starting with a separator are different
-from lines starting with a separator character.
-
-The grammar of the configuration file is defined below:
-
- CONF: *COMMENT *SECTION
-
- SECTION: MODE *RULE
-
- RULE: +TYPE VECTOR ?VECTOR
-
- MODE: 'mode' +SEP ('local' | 'remote') *SEP EOL
-
- TYPE: DATA *SEP EOL
-
- VECTOR: +SEP DATA *(+SEP NDATA) *SEP EOL
-
- DATA: CHAR *NCHAR
- NDATA: +NCHAR
-
- EOL: NL *COMMENT
- COMMENT: *SEP CMT *(SEP | NCHAR) NL
-
- NL: '\x0a'
- SEP: '\x20' | '\x09'
- CMT: '#'
- CHAR: '\x00'..'\x08' | '\x0b'..'\x1f' | '\x21' | '\x22' | '\x24'..'\xff'
- NCHAR: CMT | CHAR
-
-Here is a sample of configuration file for defining how
-to launch an application of types *application/x-executable*,
-*text/x-shellscript* and *text/html* in local mode:
-
- mode local
-
- application/x-executable
- text/x-shellscript
- %r/%c
-
- text/html
- /usr/bin/afb-daemon --mode=local --readyfd=%R --alias=/icons:%I --port=%P --rootdir=%r --token=%S --sessiondir=%D/.afb-daemon
- /usr/bin/web-runtime http://localhost:%P/%c?token=%S
-
-This shows that:
-
- - within a section, several rules can be defined
- - within a rule, several types can be defined
- - within a rule, one or two vectors can be defined
- - vectors are using %substitution
- - launched binaries must be defined with their full path
-
-### mode local
-
-Within this mode, the launchers have either one or two description vectors.
-All of those vectors are treated as programs
-and are executed with 'execve' system call.
-
-The first vector is the leader vector and it defines the process
-group. The second vector (if any) is attached to the group
-defined by this first vector.
-
-### mode remote
-
-Within this mode, the launchers have either one or two vectors
-describing them.
-
-The first vector is process as a program and is executed with
-system call 'execve'.
-
-The second vector (if any) defines a text that is returned
-to the caller. This mechanism can be used to return a uri
-for remote UI to connect on the newly launched application.
-
-The daemon ***afm-user-daemon*** allocates a port for each
-new remote application.
-The current implementation port allocation is incremental.
-A smarter (cacheable and discoverable) allocation should be defined.
-
-### %substitutions
-
-Vectors can include sequences of 2 characters that have a special
-meaning. These sequences are named *%substitution* because their
-first character is the percent sign (%) and because each occurrence
-of the sequence is replaced, at launch time, by the value associated
-to sequences.
-
-Here is the list of *%substitutions*:
-
- - ***%%***: %.
-
- This simply emits the percent sign %
-
- - ***%a***: appid
-
- Holds application Id of launched application.
-
- Defined by the attribute **id** of the element **<widget>**
- of **config.xml**.
-
- - ***%b***: bindings
-
- In the future should represent the list of bindings and bindings directory separated by ','.
- Warning: not supported in current version.
-
- - ***%c***: content
-
- The file within the widget directory that is the entry point.
-
- For HTML applications, it represents the relative path to main
- page (aka index.html).
-
- Defined by attribute **src** of the element **<content>** within **config.xml**.
-
- - ***%D***: datadir
-
- Path of the directory where the application runs (cwd)
- and stores its data.
-
- It is equal to %h/%a.
-
- - ***%H***: height
-
- Requested height for the widget.
-
- Defined by the attribute **height** of the element **<widget>**
- of **config.xml**.
-
- - ***%h***: homedir
-
- Path of the home directory for all applications.
-
- It is generally equal to $HOME/app-data
-
- - ***%I***: icondir
-
- Path of the directory were the icons of the applications can be found.
-
- - ***%m***: mime-type
-
- Mime type of the launched application.
-
- Defined by the attribute **type** of the element **<content>**
- of **config.xml**.
-
- - ***%n***: name
-
- Name of the application as defined by the content of the
- element **<name>** of **config.xml**.
-
- - ***%P***: port
-
- A port to use. It is currently a kind of random port. The precise
- model is to be defined later.
-
- - ***%R***: readyfd
-
- Number of file descriptor to use for signaling
- readiness of launched process.
-
- - ***%r***: rootdir
-
- Path of directory containing the widget and its data.
-
- - ***%S***: secret
-
- An hexadecimal number that can be used to initialize pairing of client
- and application binder.
-
- - ***%W***: width
-
- Requested width for the widget.
-
- Defined by the attribute **width** of the element **<widget>**
- of **config.xml**.
-
-
-The D-Bus interface
--------------------
-
-### Overview of the dbus interface
-
-***afm-user-daemon*** takes its orders from the session instance
-of D-Bus. D-Bus is nice to use in this context because it allows
-discovery and signaling.
-
-The dbus session is by default addressed by environment
-variable ***DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS***. Using **systemd**
-variable *DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS* is automatically set for
-user sessions.
-
-The **afm-user-daemon** is listening on destination name
-***org.AGL.afm.user*** at object path ***/org/AGL/afm/user***
-on interface ***org.AGL.afm.user*** for following members:
- ***runnables***, ***detail***, ***start***, ***terminate***,
-***stop***, ***continue***, ***runners***, ***state***,
-***install*** and ***uninstall***.
-
-D-Bus is mainly used for signaling and discovery. Its optimized
-typed protocol is not used except for transmission of standalone strings.
-
-Clients and Services are using JSON serialisation to exchange data.
-
-The D-Bus interface is defined by:
-
- * DESTINATION: **org.AGL.afm.user**
-
- * PATH: **/org/AGL/afm/user**
-
- * INTERFACE: **org.AGL.afm.user**
-
-The signature of any member of the interface is ***string -> string***
-for ***JSON -> JSON***.
-
-This is the normal case. In case of error, the current implementation
-returns a dbus error as a string.
-
-Here an example using *dbus-send* to query data on
-installed applications.
-
- dbus-send --session --print-reply \
- --dest=org.AGL.afm.user \
- /org/AGL/afm/user \
- org.AGL.afm.user.runnables string:true
-
-### Using ***afm-util***
-
-The command line tool ***afm-util*** uses dbus-send to send
-orders to **afm-user-daemon**. This small scripts allows to
-send command to ***afm-user-daemon*** either interactively
-at shell prompt or scriptically.
-
-The syntax is simple: it accept a command and when requires attached arguments.
-
-Here is the summary of ***afm-util***:
-
- - **afm-util runnables **:
-
- list the runnable widgets installed
-
- - **afm-util install wgt **:
-
- install the wgt file
-
- - **afm-util uninstall id **:
-
- remove the installed widget of id
-
- - **afm-util detail id **:
-
- print detail about the installed widget of id
-
- - **afm-util runners **:
-
- list the running instance
-
- - **afm-util start id **:
-
- start an instance of the widget of id
-
- - **afm-util terminate rid **:
-
- terminate the running instance rid
-
- - **afm-util stop rid **:
-
- stop the running instance rid
-
- - **afm-util continue rid **:
-
- continue the previously rid
-
- - **afm-util state rid **:
-
- get status of the running instance rid
-
-
-Here is how to list applications using ***afm-util***:
-
- afm-util runnables
-
----
-
-### The protocol over D-Bus
-
-Recall:
-
- * **DESTINATION**: org.AGL.afm.user
-
- * **PATH**: /org/AGL/afm/user
-
- * **INTERFACE**: org.AGL.afm.user
-
----
-
-#### Method org.AGL.afm.user.detail
-
-**Description**: Get details about an application from its id.
-
-**Input**: the id of the application as below.
-
-Either just a string:
-
- "appli@x.y"
-
-Or an object having the field "id" of type string:
-
- {"id":"appli@x.y"}
-
-**Output**: A JSON object describing the application containing
-the fields described below.
-
- {
- "id": string, the application id (id@version)
- "version": string, the version of the application
- "width": integer, requested width of the application
- "height": integer, resqueted height of the application
- "name": string, the name of the application
- "description": string, the description of the application
- "shortname": string, the short name of the application
- "author": string, the author of the application
- }
-
----
-
-#### Method org.AGL.afm.user.runnables
-
-**Description**: Get the list of applications that can be run.
-
-**Input**: any valid json entry, can be anything except null.
-
-**output**: An array of description of the runnable applications.
-Each item of the array contains an object containing the detail of
-an application as described above for the method
-*org.AGL.afm.user.detail*.
-
----
-
-#### Method org.AGL.afm.user.install
-
-**Description**: Install an application from its widget file.
-
-If an application of the same *id* and *version* exists, it is not
-reinstalled except when *force=true*.
-
-Applications are installed in the subdirectories of the common directory
-reserved for applications.
-If *root* is specified, the application is installed under
-sub-directories of defined *root*.
-
-Note that this methods is a simple accessor to the method
-***org.AGL.afm.system.install*** of ***afm-system-daemon***.
-
-After the installation and before returning to the sender,
-***afm-user-daemon*** sends the signal ***org.AGL.afm.user.changed***.
-
-**Input**: The *path* of widget file to be installed. Optionally,
-a flag to *force* reinstallation and/or a *root* directory.
-
-Simple form a simple string containing the absolute widget path:
-
- "/a/path/driving/to/the/widget"
-
-Or an object:
-
- {
- "wgt": "/a/path/to/the/widget",
- "force": false,
- "root": "/a/path/to/the/root"
- }
-
-"wgt" and "root" MUST be absolute paths.
-
-**output**: An object containing field "added" to use as application ID.
-
- {"added":"appli@x.y"}
-
----
-
-#### Method org.AGL.afm.user.uninstall
-
-**Description**: Uninstall an application from its id.
-
-
-Note that this methods is a simple accessor to
-***org.AGL.afm.system.uninstall*** method from ***afm-system-daemon***.
-
-After the uninstallation and before returning to the sender,
-***afm-user-daemon*** sends the signal ***org.AGL.afm.user.changed***.
-
-**Input**: the *id* of the application and, optionally, the path to
-application *root*.
-
-Either a string:
-
- "appli@x.y"
-
-Or an object:
-
- {
- "id": "appli@x.y",
- "root": "/a/path/to/the/root"
- }
-
-**output**: the value 'true'.
-
----
-
-#### Method org.AGL.afm.user.start
-
-**Description**:
-
-**Input**: the *id* of the application and, optionally, the
-start *mode* as below.
-
-Either just a string:
-
- "appli@x.y"
-
-Or an object containing field "id" of type string and
-optionally a field mode:
-
- {"id":"appli@x.y","mode":"local"}
-
-The field "mode" is a string equal to either "local" or "remote".
-
-**output**: The *runid* of the application launched. *runid* is an integer.
-
----
-
-#### Method org.AGL.afm.user.terminate
-
-**Description**: Terminates the application attached to *runid*.
-
-**Input**: The *runid* (an integer) of running instance to terminate.
-
-**output**: the value 'true'.
-
----
-
-#### Method org.AGL.afm.user.stop
-
-**Description**: Stops the application attached to *runid* until terminate or continue.
-
-**Input**: The *runid* (integer) of the running instance to stop.
-
-**output**: the value 'true'.
-
----
-
-#### Method org.AGL.afm.user.continue
-
-**Description**: Continues the application attached to *runid* previously stopped.
-
-**Input**: The *runid* (integer) of the running instance to continue.
-
-**output**: the value 'true'.
-
----
-
-#### Method org.AGL.afm.user.state
-
-**Description**: Get informations about a running instance of *runid*.
-
-**Input**: The *runid* (integer) of the running instance inspected.
-
-**output**: An object describing instance state. It contains:
-the runid (integer), the id of the running application (string),
-the state of the application (string either: "starting", "running", "stopped").
-
-Example of returned state:
-
- {
- "runid": 2,
- "state": "running",
- "id": "appli@x.y"
- }
-
----
-
-#### Method org.AGL.afm.user.runners
-
-**Description**: Get the list of currently running instances.
-
-**Input**: anything.
-
-**output**: An array of states, one per running instance, as returned by
-the methodd ***org.AGL.afm.user.state***.
-
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