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Vocabulary for AFB-DAEMON

version: 1
-Date:    24 mai 2016
+Date:    27 mai 2016
 Author:  José Bollo
 

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Authentification

+ +

Event

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Context

+

Message with data propagated from the services to the client and not expecting +any reply.

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Level of authorisation (LOA)

+

The current implementation allows to widely broadcast events to all clients.

+ + +

Level of assurance (LOA)

+ +

This level that can be from 0 to 3 represent the level of +assurance that the services can expect from the session.

+ +

The exact definition of the meaning of this levels and of +how to use it remains to be achived.

Plugin

+

A shared library object intended to be plug to an afb-daemon instance +to implement an API.

+

Request

+

A request is an invocation by a client to a method of a plugin using a message +transfered through some protocol: HTTP, WebSocket, DBUS… served by afb-daemon

+

Reply/Response

+

This is a message sent to client as the result of the request.

+

Service

+

Service are made of plugins runnning by their side on their binder. +It can serve many client. Each one being attached to one session.

+ +

The framework establishes the connection between the services and +the clients. Using DBus currently.

+

Session

-

A session records data as

+

A session is meant to be the unic context of an instance of client, +identifying that instance across requests.

+ +

Each session has an identifier. Session identifier generated by afb-daemon are UUIDs.

+ +

Internally, afb-daemon offers a mechanism to attach data to sessions. +When the session is closed or disappears, the data attached to that session +are freed.

Token

+

The token is an identifier that the the client must give to be authentificated.

+ +

At start, afb-daemon get an initial token. This initial token must be presented +incoming client to be authentificated.

+ +

A token is valid only for a period.

+ +

The token must be renewed periodically. When the token is renewed, afb-daemon +sends the new token to the client.

+ +

Tokens generated by afb-daemon are UUIDs.

+

UUID

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Its is designed to create identifier in a way that avoid has much as possible conflicts. It means that if two differents instance create a UUID, the probability that they create the same UUID is very low, near to zero.

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x-afb-reqid

+ +

Argument name that can be used with HTTP request. +When this argument is given, it is automatically added to the “request” object of the +answer.

+

x-afb-token

+

Argument name for giving the token without ambiguity. +You can also use the name token but it may conflicts with other arguments.

+

x-afb-uuid

+ +

Argument name for giving explicitely the session identifier without ambiguity. +You can also use the name uuid but it may conflicts with other arguments.