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diff --git a/doc/afb-daemon-vocabulary.html b/doc/afb-daemon-vocabulary.html index 4416db81..096f5076 100644 --- a/doc/afb-daemon-vocabulary.html +++ b/doc/afb-daemon-vocabulary.html @@ -4,19 +4,19 @@ <meta charset="UTF-8"> </head> <body> -<h1 id="Vocabulary.for.AFB-DAEMON">Vocabulary for AFB-DAEMON</h1> +<a name="Vocabulary.for.AFB-DAEMON"></a> +<h1>Vocabulary for AFB-DAEMON</h1> <pre><code>version: 1 -Date: 25 May 2016 +Date: 26 mai 2016 Author: José Bollo </code></pre> <p><ul> <li><a href="#Vocabulary.for.AFB-DAEMON">Vocabulary for AFB-DAEMON</a> <ul> - <li><a href="#Authentification">Authentification</a></li> - <li><a href="#Context">Context</a></li> - <li><a href="#Level.of.authorisation..LOA.">Level of authorisation (LOA)</a></li> + <li><a href="#Event">Event</a></li> + <li><a href="#Level.of.assurance..LOA.">Level of assurance (LOA)</a></li> <li><a href="#Plugin">Plugin</a></li> <li><a href="#Request">Request</a></li> <li><a href="#Reply.Response">Reply/Response</a></li> @@ -24,41 +24,108 @@ Author: José Bollo <li><a href="#Session">Session</a></li> <li><a href="#Token">Token</a></li> <li><a href="#UUID">UUID</a></li> + <li><a href="#x-afb-reqid">x-afb-reqid</a></li> <li><a href="#x-afb-token">x-afb-token</a></li> <li><a href="#x-afb-uuid">x-afb-uuid</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul></p> -<h2 id="Authentification">Authentification</h2> +<a name="Event"></a> +<h2>Event</h2> -<h2 id="Context">Context</h2> +<p>Message with data propagated from the services to the client and not expecting +any reply.</p> -<h2 id="Level.of.authorisation..LOA.">Level of authorisation (LOA)</h2> +<p>The current implementation allows to widely broadcast events to all clients.</p> -<h2 id="Plugin">Plugin</h2> +<a name="Level.of.assurance..LOA."></a> +<h2>Level of assurance (LOA)</h2> -<h2 id="Request">Request</h2> +<p>This level that can be from 0 to 3 represent the level of +assurance that the services can expect from the session.</p> -<h2 id="Reply.Response">Reply/Response</h2> +<p>The exact definition of the meaning of this levels and of +how to use it remains to be achived.</p> -<h2 id="Service">Service</h2> +<a name="Plugin"></a> +<h2>Plugin</h2> -<h2 id="Session">Session</h2> +<p>A shared library object intended to be plug to an afb-daemon instance +to implement an API.</p> -<p>A session records data as</p> +<a name="Request"></a> +<h2>Request</h2> -<h2 id="Token">Token</h2> +<p>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</p> -<h2 id="UUID">UUID</h2> +<a name="Reply.Response"></a> +<h2>Reply/Response</h2> + +<p>This is a message sent to client as the result of the request.</p> + +<a name="Service"></a> +<h2>Service</h2> + +<p>Service are made of plugins runnning by their side on their binder. +It can serve many client. Each one being attached to one session.</p> + +<p>The framework establishes the connection between the services and +the clients. Using DBus currently.</p> + +<a name="Session"></a> +<h2>Session</h2> + +<p>A session is meant to be the unic context of an instance of client, +identifying that instance across requests.</p> + +<p>Each session has an identifier. Session identifier generated by afb-daemon are UUIDs.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<a name="Token"></a> +<h2>Token</h2> + +<p>The token is an identifier that the the client must give to be authentificated.</p> + +<p>At start, afb-daemon get an initial token. This initial token must be presented +incoming client to be authentificated.</p> + +<p>A token is valid only for a period.</p> + +<p>The token must be renewed periodically. When the token is renewed, afb-daemon +sends the new token to the client.</p> + +<p>Tokens generated by afb-daemon are UUIDs.</p> + +<a name="UUID"></a> +<h2>UUID</h2> <p>It stand for Universal Unic IDentifier.</p> <p>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.</p> -<h2 id="x-afb-token">x-afb-token</h2> +<a name="x-afb-reqid"></a> +<h2>x-afb-reqid</h2> + +<p>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.</p> + +<a name="x-afb-token"></a> +<h2>x-afb-token</h2> + +<p>Argument name for giving the token without ambiguity. +You can also use the name <strong>token</strong> but it may conflicts with other arguments.</p> + +<a name="x-afb-uuid"></a> +<h2>x-afb-uuid</h2> -<h2 id="x-afb-uuid">x-afb-uuid</h2> +<p>Argument name for giving explicitely the session identifier without ambiguity. +You can also use the name <strong>uuid</strong> but it may conflicts with other arguments.</p> </body> </html> |