X-Git-Url: https://gerrit.automotivelinux.org/gerrit/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fafb-daemon-vocabulary.md;h=897e4db196aae7e1373e4f3a331993427dc61dc2;hb=36e53e878baaa9d56c09097ada0b7061266caff8;hp=2531c81a5d0fc371bd7bcc2c1292445fbf82fc67;hpb=ebb9bd69a97516763d5d9203245ded592b825a86;p=src%2Fapp-framework-binder.git diff --git a/doc/afb-daemon-vocabulary.md b/doc/afb-daemon-vocabulary.md index 2531c81a..897e4db1 100644 --- a/doc/afb-daemon-vocabulary.md +++ b/doc/afb-daemon-vocabulary.md @@ -1,31 +1,75 @@ + Vocabulary for AFB-DAEMON ========================= - version: 1 - Date: 25 May 2016 - Author: José Bollo -TABLE-OF-CONTENT-HERE +## Binding + +A shared library object intended to be add a functionnality to an afb-daemon +instance. It implements an API. It may provide a service. + +Binding made for services can have specific entry point called after +initialisation and before serving. + +## Event + +Message with data propagated from the services to the client and not expecting +any reply. + +The current implementation allows to widely broadcast events to all clients. -## Authentification +## Level of assurance (LOA) -## Context +This level that can be from 0 to 3 represent the level of +assurance that the services can expect from the session. -## Level of authorisation (LOA) +The exact definition of the meaning of this levels and of +how to use it remains to be achived. ## Plugin +Old name for binding, see binding. + ## Request +A request is an invocation by a client to a method of a binding 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 binding 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 but other protocols are considered. + ## 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 @@ -34,6 +78,19 @@ It stand for Universal Unic IDentifier. 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. +## 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. +