The binder AFB-DAEMON

version: 1
Date:    30 mai 2016
Author:  José Bollo

Launching the binder afb-daemon

The launch options for binder afb-daemon are:

  --help

        Prints help with available options

  --version

        Display version and copyright

  --verbose

        Increases the verbosity, can be repeated

  --port=xxxx

        HTTP listening TCP port  [default 1234]

  --rootdir=xxxx

        HTTP Root Directory [default $AFBDIR or else $HOME/.AFB]

  --rootbase=xxxx

        Angular Base Root URL [default /opa]

        This is used for any application of kind OPA (one page application).
        When set, any missing document whose url has the form /opa/zzz
        is translated to /opa/#!zzz

  --rootapi=xxxx

        HTML Root API URL [default /api]

        The plugins are available within that url.

  --alias=xxxx

        Maps a path located anywhere in the file system to the
        a subdirectory. The syntax for mapping a PATH to the
        subdirectory NAME is: --alias=/NAME:PATH.

        Example: --alias=/icons:/usr/share/icons maps the
        content of /usr/share/icons within the subpath /icons.

        This option can be repeated.

  --apitimeout=xxxx

        Plugin API timeout in seconds [default 20]

        Defines how many seconds maximum a method is allowed to run.
        0 means no limit.

  --cntxtimeout=xxxx

        Client Session Timeout in seconds [default 3600]

  --cache-eol=xxxx

        Client cache end of live [default 100000 that is 27,7 hours]

  --sessiondir=xxxx

        Sessions file path [default rootdir/sessions]

  --ldpaths=xxxx

        Load Plugins from given paths separated by colons
        as for dir1:dir2:plugin1.so:... [default = $libdir/afb]

        You can mix path to directories and to plugins.
        The sub-directories of the given directories are searched
        recursively.

        The plugins are the files terminated by '.so' (the extension
        so denotes shared object) that contain the public entry symbol.

  --plugin=xxxx

        Load the plugin of given path.

  --token=xxxx

        Initial Secret token to authenticate.

        If not set, no client can authenticate.

        If set to the empty string, then any initial token is accepted.

  --mode=xxxx

        Set the mode: either local, remote or global.

        The mode indicate if the application is run locally on the host
        or remotely through network.

  --readyfd=xxxx

        Set the #fd to signal when ready

        If set, the binder afb-daemon will write "READY=1\n" on the file
        descriptor whose number if given (/proc/self/fd/xxx).

  --dbus-client=xxxx

        Transparent binding to a binder afb-daemon service through dbus.

        It creates an API of name xxxx that is implemented remotely
        and queried via DBUS.

  --dbus-server=xxxx

        Provides a binder afb-daemon service through dbus.

        The name xxxx must be the name of an API defined by a plugin.
        This API is exported through DBUS.

  --foreground

        Get all in foreground mode (default)

  --daemon

        Get all in background mode

Working with afb-daemon

Future of afb-daemon