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### Application Framework Binder
This is an undergoing work, publication is only intended for developers to review and provide feedback.
### License
As of today, the code is licensed under GLPv3. While no decision as been taken yet, it will certainly switch to a different licence: GPLv2, Apache or MIT e.g..
Final goal is to keep the engine publicly accessible and modifiable, still allowing people to load non open-source plugins. The code itself already leverages open-source libraries, including libmicrohttpd & libjson.
Finally, whatever license is chosen, it should be compatible with dependencies and automotive industry requirements - as the primary target for this code is AGL.
### Building
Building Application Framework Binder requires the following libraries:
* libmagic ("libmagic-dev" under Debian/Ubuntu, "file-devel" under OpenSUSE);
* libmicrohttpd ("libmicrohttpd-dev/devel");
* json-c ("libjson-c-dev/devel");
* uuid ("uuid-dev/libuuid-devel");
* dbus ("libdbus-1-dev/dbus-1-devel");
optionally, for plugins :
* alsa ("libasound2-dev/alsa-devel");
* pulseaudio ("libpulse-dev/libpulse-devel");
* rtl-sdr >= 0.5.0 (fetch and build from "git://git.osmocom.org/rtl-sdr");
and the following tools:
* pkg-config;
* cmake >= 2.8.8.
To install all dependencies under OpenSUSE (excepting rtl-sdr), please type:
```
$ zypper in file-devel libmicrohttpd-devel libjson-c-devel libuuid-devel dbus-1-devel alsa-devel libpulse-devel pkg-config cmake
```
To build, move to the root directory and type:
```
$ mkdir build; cd build<br />
$ cmake ..<br />
$ make; make install<br />
```
### Starting
```
$ afb-daemon --help
$ afb-daemon --verbose --port=<port> --token='' --sessiondir=<working directory> --rootdir=<web directory (index.html)>
```
### Example
```
$ afb-daemon --verbose --port=1234 --token='' --sessiondir=/tmp --rootdir=/srv/www/htdocs --alias=icons:/usr/share/icons
```
### Directories & Paths
Default behaviour is to locate ROOTDIR in $HOME/.AFB
### REST API
Developers are intended to provide a structure containing : API name, corresponding methods/callbacks, and optionally a context and a handle.
A handle is a void* structure automatically passed to API callbacks. Callbacks also receive HTTP GET data as well as HTTP POST data, in case a POST method was used. Every method should return a JSON object or NULL in case of error.
API plugins can be protected from timeout and other errors. By default this behaviour is deactivated, use --apitimeout to activate it.
STATIC AFB_restapi myApis[]= {
{"ping" , AFB_SESSION_NONE, (AFB_apiCB)ping, "Ping Function"},
{"action1" , AFB_SESSION_CHECK, (AFB_apiCB)action1 , "Action-1"},
{"action2" , AFB_SESSION_CHECK, (AFB_apiCB)action2 , "Action-2"},
{NULL}
};
PUBLIC AFB_plugin *pluginRegister () {
AFB_plugin *plugin = malloc (sizeof (AFB_plugin));
plugin->type = AFB_PLUGIN_JSON;
plugin->info = "Plugin Sample";
plugin->prefix= "myPlugin";
plugin->apis = myApis;
return (plugin);
}
### HTML5 and AngularJS Redirects
Binder supports HTML5 redirect mode even with an application baseurl. Default value for application base URL is /opa.
See Application Framework HTML5 Client template at https://github.com/iotbzh/afb-client-sample
If the Binder receives something like _http://myopa/sample_ when sample is not the homepage of the AngularJS OPA, it will redirect to _http://myopa/#!sample_. This redirect will return the _index.html_ OPA file and will notify AngularJS not to display the homepage, but the sample page.
Warning: in order for AngularJS applications to be able to work with both BASEURL="/" and BASEURL="/MyApp/", all page references have to be relative.
Recommended model is to develop with a BASEURL="/opa" as any application working with a BASEURL will work without, while the opposite is not true.
Note: If a resource is not accessible from ROOTDIR then the "--alias" switch should be used, as in: --alias=/icons:/usr/share/icons. Only use alias for external support static files. This should not be used for API and OPA.
### Ongoing work
Javascript plugins. As of today, only C plugins are supported, but JS plugins are on the TODO list.
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