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author | Romain Forlot <romain.forlot@iot.bzh> | 2016-11-21 23:25:02 +0100 |
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committer | Romain Forlot <romain.forlot@iot.bzh> | 2016-12-05 16:23:48 +0100 |
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parent | 2a2a9835cfe31a495020c79b0eeadbddb70f52ae (diff) |
Fix typo, get diagrams pictures and reordering doc
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Signed-off-by: Romain Forlot <romain.forlot@iot.bzh>
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diff --git a/doc/afb-daemon-vocabulary.md b/doc/afb-daemon-vocabulary.md index 897e4db1..c3b7c1ea 100644 --- a/doc/afb-daemon-vocabulary.md +++ b/doc/afb-daemon-vocabulary.md @@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ Vocabulary for AFB-DAEMON ## 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. +A shared library object intended to add a functionality to an afb-daemon +instance. It implements an API and may provide a service. Binding made for services can have specific entry point called after initialisation and before serving. @@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ The current implementation allows to widely broadcast events to all clients. 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. +The exact definition of the meaning of these levels and how to use it remains to +be achieved. ## Plugin @@ -31,8 +31,9 @@ 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 +A request is an invocation by a client to a binding method using a message +transferred through some protocol: HTTP, WebSocket, DBUS... and served by +***afb-daemon*** ## Reply/Response @@ -40,18 +41,19 @@ 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. +Service are made of bindings running by their side on their binder. +It can serve many client. Each one attached to one session. -The framework establishes the connection between the services and +The framework establishes connection between the services and the clients. Using DBus currently but other protocols are considered. ## Session -A session is meant to be the unic context of an instance of client, -identifying that instance across requests. +A session is meant to be the unique instance context of a client, +which identify that instance across requests. -Each session has an identifier. Session identifier generated by afb-daemon are UUIDs. +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 @@ -59,10 +61,10 @@ are freed. ## Token -The token is an identifier that the the client must give to be authentificated. +The token is an identifier that the client must give to be authenticated. At start, afb-daemon get an initial token. This initial token must be presented -incoming client to be authentificated. +by incoming client to be authenticated. A token is valid only for a period. @@ -73,24 +75,24 @@ Tokens generated by afb-daemon are UUIDs. ## UUID -It stand for Universal Unic IDentifier. +It stand for Universal Unique 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. +It is designed to create identifier in a way that avoid has much as possible +conflicts. It means that if two different instances create an 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. +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. +Argument name meant to give the token without ambiguity. +You can also use the name **token** but it may conflicts with others 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. +Argument name for giving explicitly the session identifier without ambiguity. +You can also use the name **uuid** but it may conflicts with others arguments. |