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The afm-system-daemon
=====================

Foreword
--------

This document describes application framework system daemon fundamentals. 
FCF (Fully Conform to Specification) implementation is still under development.
It may happen that current implementation somehow diverges with specifications.


Introduction
------------

The daemon **afm-system-daemon** is in charge of installing
applications on AGL system. Its main tasks are:

 - installs applications and setup security framework
   for newly installed application.

 - uninstall applications

The **afm-system-daemon** takes its orders from system
instance of D-Bus.

The figure below summarizes the situation of **afm-system-daemon** in the system.

    +------------------------------------------------------------+
    |                          User                              |
    |                                                            |
    |     +-------------------------------------------------+    |
    |     |                                                 |    |
    |     |                  afm-user-daemon                |    |
    |     |                                                 |    |
    |     +----------+----------------------+----------+----+    |
    |                |                      |          :         |
    |                |                      |          :         |
    :================|======================|==========:=========:
    |                |                      |          :         |
    |     +----------+----------+     +-----+-----+    :         |
    |     |   D-Bus   system    +-----+  CYNARA   |    :         |
    |     +----------+----------+     +-----+-----+    :         |
    |                |                      |          :         |
    |     +----------+---------+    +-------+----------+----+    |
    |     | afm-system-daemon  +----+   SECURITY-MANAGER    |    |
    |     +--------------------+    +-----------------------+    |
    |                                                            |
    |                          System                            |
    +------------------------------------------------------------+


Starting **afm-system-daemon**
------------------------------

**afm-system-daemon** is launched as a **systemd** service
attached to system. Normally, the service file is
located at /lib/systemd/system/afm-system-daemon.service.

The options for launching **afm-system-daemon** are:

    -r
    --root directory
    
         Set the root application directory.

         Note that the default root directory is defined
         to be /usr/share/afm/applications (may change).
    
    -d
    --daemon
    
         Daemonizes the process. It is not needed by sytemd.
    
    -q
    --quiet
    
         Reduces the verbosity (can be repeated).
    
    -v
    --verbose
    
         Increases the verbosity (can be repeated).
    
    -h
    --help
    
         Prints a short help.
    
The D-Bus interface
-------------------

### Overview of the dbus interface

***afm-system-daemon*** takes its orders from the session instance
of D-Bus. The use of D-Bus is great because it allows to implement
discovery and signaling.

The **afm-system-daemon** is listening with the destination name
***org.AGL.afm.system*** at the object of path ***/org/AGL/afm/system***
on the interface ***org.AGL.afm.system*** for the below detailed
members ***install*** and ***uninstall***.

D-Bus is mainly used for signaling and discovery. Its optimized
typed protocol is not used except for transmitting only one string
in both directions.

The client and the service are using JSON serialization to
exchange data. 

The D-Bus interface is defined by:

 * DESTINATION: **org.AGL.afm.system**

 * PATH: **/org/AGL/afm/system**

 * INTERFACE: **org.AGL.afm.system**

The signature of any member of the interface is ***string -> string***
for ***JSON -> JSON***.

This is the normal case. In case of error, the current implementation
returns a dbus error that is a string.

Here is an example using *dbus-send* to query data on
installed applications.

    dbus-send --session --print-reply \
        --dest=org.AGL.afm.system \
        /org/AGL/afm/system \
        org.AGL.afm.system.install 'string:"/tmp/appli.wgt"'

### The protocol over D-Bus

---

#### Method org.AGL.afm.system.install

**Description**: Install an application from a widget file.

When an application with the same *id* and *version* already exists. Outside of
using *force=true* the application is not reinstalled.

Applications are installed the subdirectories of applications common directory.
If *root* is specified, the application is installed under the
sub-directories of the *root* defined.

Note that this methods is a simple accessor method of
***org.AGL.afm.system.install*** from ***afm-system-daemon***.

After the installation and before returning to the sender,
***afm-system-daemon*** sends a signal ***org.AGL.afm.system.changed***.

**Input**: The *path* of the widget file to install and, optionally,
a flag to *force* reinstallation, and, optionally, a *root* directory.

Either just a string being the absolute path of the widget file:

    "/a/path/driving/to/the/widget"

Or an object:

    {
      "wgt": "/a/path/to/the/widget",
      "force": false,
      "root": "/a/path/to/the/root"
    }

"wgt" and "root" must be absolute paths.

**output**: An object with the field "added" being the string for
the id of the added application.

    {"added":"appli@x.y"}

---

#### Method org.AGL.afm.system.uninstall

**Description**: Uninstall an application from its id.


Note that this methods is a simple method accessor of 
***org.AGL.afm.system.uninstall*** from ***afm-system-daemon***.

After the uninstallation and before returning to the sender,
***afm-system-daemon*** sends a signal ***org.AGL.afm.system.changed***.

**Input**: the *id* of the application and optionally the application *root* path.

Either a string:

    "appli@x.y"

Or an object:

    {
      "id": "appli@x.y",
      "root": "/a/path/to/the/root"
    }

**output**: the value 'true'.

[meta-intel]:       https://github.com/01org/meta-intel-iot-security                "A collection of layers providing security technologies"
[widgets]:          http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets                                    "Packaged Web Apps"
[widgets-digsig]:   http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets-digsig                             "XML Digital Signatures for Widgets"
[libxml2]:          http://xmlsoft.org/html/index.html                              "libxml2"
[openssl]:          https://www.openssl.org                                         "OpenSSL"
[xmlsec]:           https://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec                                  "XMLSec"
[json-c]:           https://github.com/json-c/json-c                                "JSON-c"
[d-bus]:            http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus                   "D-Bus"
[libzip]:           http://www.nih.at/libzip                                        "libzip"
[cmake]:            https://cmake.org                                               "CMake"
[security-manager]: https://wiki.tizen.org/wiki/Security/Tizen_3.X_Security_Manager "Security-Manager"
[app-manifest]:     http://www.w3.org/TR/appmanifest                                "Web App Manifest"
[tizen-security]:   https://wiki.tizen.org/wiki/Security                            "Tizen security home page"
[tizen-secu-3]:     https://wiki.tizen.org/wiki/Security/Tizen_3.X_Overview         "Tizen 3 security overview"