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+
+The afm-system-daemon
+=====================
+
+Foreword
+--------
+
+This document describes application framework system 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-system-daemon** is in charge of installing
+applications on AGL system. Its main tasks are:
+
+ - installs applications and setup security framework
+ for newly installed application.
+
+ - uninstall applications
+
+The **afm-system-daemon** takes its orders from system
+instance of D-Bus.
+
+The figure below summarizes the situation of **afm-system-daemon** in the system.
+
+ +------------------------------------------------------------+
+ | User |
+ | |
+ | +-------------------------------------------------+ |
+ | | | |
+ | | afm-user-daemon | |
+ | | | |
+ | +----------+----------------------+----------+----+ |
+ | | | : |
+ | | | : |
+ :================|======================|==========:=========:
+ | | | : |
+ | +----------+----------+ +-----+-----+ : |
+ | | D-Bus system +-----+ CYNARA | : |
+ | +----------+----------+ +-----+-----+ : |
+ | | | : |
+ | +----------+---------+ +-------+----------+----+ |
+ | | afm-system-daemon +----+ SECURITY-MANAGER | |
+ | +--------------------+ +-----------------------+ |
+ | |
+ | System |
+ +------------------------------------------------------------+
+
+
+Starting **afm-system-daemon**
+------------------------------
+
+**afm-system-daemon** is launched as a **systemd** service
+attached to system. Normally, the service file is
+located at /lib/systemd/system/afm-system-daemon.service.
+
+The options for launching **afm-system-daemon** are:
+
+ -r
+ --root directory
+
+ Set the root application directory.
+
+ Note that the default root directory is defined
+ to be /usr/share/afm/applications (may change).
+
+ -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.
+
+The D-Bus interface
+-------------------
+
+### Overview of the dbus interface
+
+***afm-system-daemon*** takes its orders from the session instance
+of D-Bus. The use of D-Bus is great because it allows to implement
+discovery and signaling.
+
+The **afm-system-daemon** is listening with the destination name
+***org.AGL.afm.system*** at the object of path ***/org/AGL/afm/system***
+on the interface ***org.AGL.afm.system*** for the below detailed
+members ***install*** and ***uninstall***.
+
+D-Bus is mainly used for signaling and discovery. Its optimized
+typed protocol is not used except for transmitting only one string
+in both directions.
+
+The client and the service are using JSON serialization to
+exchange data.
+
+The D-Bus interface is defined by:
+
+ * DESTINATION: **org.AGL.afm.system**
+
+ * PATH: **/org/AGL/afm/system**
+
+ * INTERFACE: **org.AGL.afm.system**
+
+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 that is a string.
+
+Here is an example using *dbus-send* to query data on
+installed applications.
+
+ dbus-send --session --print-reply \
+ --dest=org.AGL.afm.system \
+ /org/AGL/afm/system \
+ org.AGL.afm.system.install 'string:"/tmp/appli.wgt"'
+
+### The protocol over D-Bus
+
+---
+
+#### Method org.AGL.afm.system.install
+
+**Description**: Install an application from a widget file.
+
+When an application with the same *id* and *version* already exists. Outside of
+using *force=true* the application is not reinstalled.
+
+Applications are installed the subdirectories of applications common directory.
+If *root* is specified, the application is installed under the
+sub-directories of the *root* defined.
+
+Note that this methods is a simple accessor method of
+***org.AGL.afm.system.install*** from ***afm-system-daemon***.
+
+After the installation and before returning to the sender,
+***afm-system-daemon*** sends a signal ***org.AGL.afm.system.changed***.
+
+**Input**: The *path* of the widget file to install and, optionally,
+a flag to *force* reinstallation, and, optionally, a *root* directory.
+
+Either just a string being the absolute path of the widget file:
+
+ "/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 with the field "added" being the string for
+the id of the added application.
+
+ {"added":"appli@x.y"}
+
+---
+
+#### Method org.AGL.afm.system.uninstall
+
+**Description**: Uninstall an application from its id.
+
+
+Note that this methods is a simple method accessor of
+***org.AGL.afm.system.uninstall*** from ***afm-system-daemon***.
+
+After the uninstallation and before returning to the sender,
+***afm-system-daemon*** sends a signal ***org.AGL.afm.system.changed***.
+
+**Input**: the *id* of the application and optionally the application *root* path.
+
+Either a string:
+
+ "appli@x.y"
+
+Or an object:
+
+ {
+ "id": "appli@x.y",
+ "root": "/a/path/to/the/root"
+ }
+
+**output**: the value 'true'.
+
+[meta-intel]: https://github.com/01org/meta-intel-iot-security "A collection of layers providing security technologies"
+[widgets]: http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets "Packaged Web Apps"
+[widgets-digsig]: http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets-digsig "XML Digital Signatures for Widgets"
+[libxml2]: http://xmlsoft.org/html/index.html "libxml2"
+[openssl]: https://www.openssl.org "OpenSSL"
+[xmlsec]: https://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec "XMLSec"
+[json-c]: https://github.com/json-c/json-c "JSON-c"
+[d-bus]: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus "D-Bus"
+[libzip]: http://www.nih.at/libzip "libzip"
+[cmake]: https://cmake.org "CMake"
+[security-manager]: https://wiki.tizen.org/wiki/Security/Tizen_3.X_Security_Manager "Security-Manager"
+[app-manifest]: http://www.w3.org/TR/appmanifest "Web App Manifest"
+[tizen-security]: https://wiki.tizen.org/wiki/Security "Tizen security home page"
+[tizen-secu-3]: https://wiki.tizen.org/wiki/Security/Tizen_3.X_Overview "Tizen 3 security overview"
+
+
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