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author | José Bollo <jose.bollo@iot.bzh> | 2016-05-30 14:50:15 +0200 |
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committer | José Bollo <jose.bollo@iot.bzh> | 2016-05-30 14:50:15 +0200 |
commit | ea682aac623181e6df8555c29cca52697460c22f (patch) | |
tree | 7445b5fed27537b27e6f13ad0ae0ab6db9ed8ce6 /doc/afb-application-writing.md | |
parent | e1f0baa400cd40c5cded98328e9353b9d433b94f (diff) |
remove the document afb-daemon.{md,html}
Change-Id: I6877be36cbc4e4125d7cdf658807aee98de4c82a
Signed-off-by: José Bollo <jose.bollo@iot.bzh>
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diff --git a/doc/afb-application-writing.md b/doc/afb-application-writing.md index 7d2cd635..ead31a91 100644 --- a/doc/afb-application-writing.md +++ b/doc/afb-application-writing.md @@ -6,8 +6,10 @@ HOWTO WRITE an APPLICATION above AGL FRAMEWORK TABLE-OF-CONTENT-HERE -Writing an HTML5 application ----------------------------- +Languages for writing Applications +---------------------------------- + +### Writing an HTML5 application Developpers of HTML5 applications (client side) can easyly create applications for AGL framework using their prefered @@ -26,8 +28,7 @@ Two examples of HTML5 applications are given: - [afm-client](https://github.com/iotbzh/afm-client) a simple "Home screen" application -Writing a Qt application ------------------------- +### Writing a Qt application Writing Qt applications is also possible because Qt offers APIs to make HTTP queries and to connect using WebSockets. @@ -38,8 +39,7 @@ It is demontrated by the sample application token-websock: - [token-websock](https://github.com/iotbzh/afb-daemon/blob/master/test/token-websock.qml) a simple "hello world" application in QML -Writing a C application ------------------------ +### Writing a C application C applications can use the binder afb-daemon through a websocket connection. @@ -58,7 +58,8 @@ and being less dependant of libsystemd. Handling sessions within applications ------------------------------------- -### Exchanging tokens +Applications must be aware of the the features session and token +when they interact with the binder afb-daemon. Applications are communicating with their binder afb-daemon using a network connection or a kind of network connection (unix domain @@ -67,11 +68,24 @@ Also, HTTP protocol is not a connected protocol. It means that the socket connection can not be used to authenticate a client. For this reason, the binder should authenticate the application -by using a commonly shared secret named token. +by using a commonly shared secret named token and the identification +of the client named session. + +### Handling sessions + +Plugins and features of the binder need to keep track of the client +instances. In principle, a binder afb-daemon is launched by application +instance. But for services, a binder + +### Exchanging tokens At start, the framework communicate a common secret to both the binder -and its client: the application. When the application +and its client: the application. This initial secret is the +initial token. + +For each of its client application, the binder manages a current active +token. The initial token is the default active token. It is the expected +token for new clients. -### Handling sessions |