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<a name="The.afm-user-daemon"></a>
<h1>The afm-user-daemon</h1>
<pre><code>version: 1
Date: 29 mai 2016
Author: José Bollo
</code></pre>
<p><ul>
<li><a href="#The.afm-user-daemon">The afm-user-daemon</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#Foreword">Foreword</a></li>
<li><a href="#Introduction">Introduction</a></li>
<li><a href="#Tasks.of..strong.afm-user-daemon..strong.">Tasks of <strong>afm-user-daemon</strong></a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#Maintaining.list.of.applications">Maintaining list of applications</a></li>
<li><a href="#Launching.applications">Launching applications</a></li>
<li><a href="#Managing.instances.of.running.applications">Managing instances of running applications</a></li>
<li><a href="#Installing.and.uninstalling.applications">Installing and uninstalling applications</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#Starting..strong.afm-user-daemon..strong.">Starting <strong>afm-user-daemon</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#Configuration.of.the.launcher">Configuration of the launcher</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#mode.local">mode local</a></li>
<li><a href="#mode.remote">mode remote</a></li>
<li><a href="#L.substitutions">%substitutions</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#The.D-Bus.interface">The D-Bus interface</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#Overview.of.the.dbus.interface">Overview of the dbus interface</a></li>
<li><a href="#Using..strong..em.afm-util..em...strong.">Using <strong><em>afm-util</em></strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#The.protocol.over.D-Bus">The protocol over D-Bus</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#Method.org.AGL.afm.user.detail">Method org.AGL.afm.user.detail</a></li>
<li><a href="#Method.org.AGL.afm.user.runnables">Method org.AGL.afm.user.runnables</a></li>
<li><a href="#Method.org.AGL.afm.user.install">Method org.AGL.afm.user.install</a></li>
<li><a href="#Method.org.AGL.afm.user.uninstall">Method org.AGL.afm.user.uninstall</a></li>
<li><a href="#Method.org.AGL.afm.user.start">Method org.AGL.afm.user.start</a></li>
<li><a href="#Method.org.AGL.afm.user.terminate">Method org.AGL.afm.user.terminate</a></li>
<li><a href="#Method.org.AGL.afm.user.stop">Method org.AGL.afm.user.stop</a></li>
<li><a href="#Method.org.AGL.afm.user.continue">Method org.AGL.afm.user.continue</a></li>
<li><a href="#Method.org.AGL.afm.user.state">Method org.AGL.afm.user.state</a></li>
<li><a href="#Method.org.AGL.afm.user.runners">Method org.AGL.afm.user.runners</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul></p>
<a name="Foreword"></a>
<h2>Foreword</h2>
<p>This document describes what we intend to do. It may happen that our
current implementation and the content of this document differ.</p>
<p>In case of differences, it is assumed that this document is right
and the implementation is wrong.</p>
<a name="Introduction"></a>
<h2>Introduction</h2>
<p>The daemon <strong>afm-user-daemon</strong> is in charge of handling
applications for one user. Its main tasks are:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>enumerate the applications that the user can run
and keep the list avalable on demand</p></li>
<li><p>start applications for the user, set their running
environment, set their security context</p></li>
<li><p>list the current runner applications</p></li>
<li><p>stop (aka pause), continue (aka resume), terminate
the running instance of application</p></li>
<li><p>transfer requests for installation or uninstallation
of applications to the dedicated system daemon
<strong>afm-system-daemon</strong></p></li>
</ul>
<p>The <strong>afm-user-daemon</strong> takes its orders from the session
instance of D-Bus.</p>
<p>The figure below summarizes the situation of the
<strong>afm-user-daemon</strong> in the system.</p>
<pre><code>+------------------------------------------------------------+
| User |
| +---------------------+ |
| +---------------------+ | Smack isolated | |
| | D-Bus session + | APPLICATIONS | |
| +----------+----------+ +---------+-----------+ |
| | | |
| | | |
| +----------+--------------------------+-----------+ |
| | | |
| | afm-user-daemon | |
| | | |
| +----------+----------------------+----------+----+ |
| | | : |
| | | : |
:================|======================|==========:=========:
| | | : |
| +----------+----------+ +-----+-----+ : |
| | D-Bus system +-----+ CYNARA | : |
| +----------+----------+ +-----+-----+ : |
| | | : |
| +----------+---------+ +-------+----------+----+ |
| | afm-system-daemon +----+ SECURITY-MANAGER | |
| +--------------------+ +-----------------------+ |
| |
| System |
+------------------------------------------------------------+
</code></pre>
<a name="Tasks.of..strong.afm-user-daemon..strong."></a>
<h2>Tasks of <strong>afm-user-daemon</strong></h2>
<a name="Maintaining.list.of.applications"></a>
<h3>Maintaining list of applications</h3>
<p>At start <strong>afm-user-daemon</strong> scans the directories containing
the applications and load in memory the list applications
availables to the current user.</p>
<p>When <strong>afm-system-daemon</strong> installs or removes an application,
it sends the signal <em>org.AGL.afm.system.changed</em> on success.
If it receives that signal, <strong>afm-user-daemon</strong> rebuild its
list of applications.</p>
<p><strong>afm-user-daemon</strong> provides the data that it collected about
application to its clients that either want to get that list
or to get information about one application.</p>
<a name="Launching.applications"></a>
<h3>Launching applications</h3>
<p><strong>afm-user-daemon</strong> launchs the applications. This means
that its builds a secure environment for the application
and then start it inside that secured environment.</p>
<p>Applications of different kind can be launched.</p>
<p>This is set using a configuration file that describes
how to launch an application of a given kind for a given
mode.</p>
<p>There is two launching modes: local or remote.</p>
<p>Launching an application locally means that
the application and its binder are launcher together.</p>
<p>Launching application remotely means that only the
binder is launched for the application.</p>
<p>Once launched, running instances of application receive
a runid that identify them.</p>
<a name="Managing.instances.of.running.applications"></a>
<h3>Managing instances of running applications</h3>
<p><strong>afm-user-daemon</strong> manages the list of applications
that it launched.</p>
<p>With the good permissions, a client can get the list
of the running instances and details about a specific
running instance. It can also terminate, stop or
continue a given application.</p>
<a name="Installing.and.uninstalling.applications"></a>
<h3>Installing and uninstalling applications</h3>
<p>If the client has the good permission,
<strong>afm-user-daemon</strong> delegates that task
to <strong>afm-system-daemon</strong>.</p>
<a name="Starting..strong.afm-user-daemon..strong."></a>
<h2>Starting <strong>afm-user-daemon</strong></h2>
<p><strong>afm-user-daemon</strong> is launched as a <strong>systemd</strong> service
attached to user sessions. Normally, the service file is
located at /usr/lib/systemd/user/afm-user-daemon.service.</p>
<p>The options for launching <strong>afm-user-daemon</strong> are:</p>
<pre><code>-a
--application directory
Includes the given application directory to
the database base of applications.
Can be repeated.
-r
--root directory
Includes the root application directory to
the database base of applications.
Note that the default root directory for
applications is always added. It is defined
to be /usr/share/afm/applications (may change).
Can be repeated.
-m
--mode (local|remote)
Set the default launch mode.
The default value is 'local'
-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.
</code></pre>
<a name="Configuration.of.the.launcher"></a>
<h2>Configuration of the launcher</h2>
<p>It contains rules for launching applications.
When <strong>afm-user-daemon</strong> need to launch an application,
it looks to the mode of launch, local or remote, and the
type of the application as given by the file <strong><em>config.xml</em></strong>
of the widget.</p>
<p>This couple mode and type allows to select the rule.</p>
<p>The configuration file is <strong>/etc/afm/afm-launch.conf</strong>.</p>
<p>It contains sections and rules. It can also contain comments
and empty lines to improve the readability.</p>
<p>The separators are space and tabulation, any other character
is meaning something.</p>
<p>The format is line oriented.
The new line character separate the lines.</p>
<p>Lines having only separators are blank lines and are skipped.
Line having the character # (sharp) as first not separator character
are comment lines and are ignored.</p>
<p>Lines starting with a not separator character are differents
of lines starting with a separator character.</p>
<p>The grammar of the configuration file is defined below:</p>
<pre><code>CONF: *COMMENT *SECTION
SECTION: MODE *RULE
RULE: +TYPE VECTOR ?VECTOR
MODE: 'mode' +SEP ('local' | 'remote') *SEP EOL
TYPE: DATA *SEP EOL
VECTOR: +SEP DATA *(+SEP NDATA) *SEP EOL
DATA: CHAR *NCHAR
NDATA: +NCHAR
EOL: NL *COMMENT
COMMENT: *SEP CMT *(SEP | NCHAR) NL
NL: '\x0a'
SEP: '\x20' | '\x09'
CMT: '#'
CHAR: '\x00'..'\x08' | '\x0b'..'\x1f' | '\x21' | '\x22' | '\x24'..'\xff'
NCHAR: CMT | CHAR
</code></pre>
<p>Here is a sample of configuration file for defining how
to launch an application declared of types <em>application/x-executable</em>,
<em>text/x-shellscript</em> and <em>text/html</em> in mode local:</p>
<pre><code>mode local
application/x-executable
text/x-shellscript
%r/%c
text/html
/usr/bin/afb-daemon --mode=local --readyfd=%R --alias=/icons:%I --port=%P --rootdir=%r --token=%S --sessiondir=%D/.afb-daemon
/usr/bin/web-runtime http://localhost:%P/%c?token=%S
</code></pre>
<p>This shows that:</p>
<ul>
<li>within a section, several rules can be defined</li>
<li>within a rule, several types can be defined</li>
<li>within a rule, one or two vectors can be defined</li>
<li>vectors are using %substitution</li>
<li>launched binaries must be defined with their full path</li>
</ul>
<a name="mode.local"></a>
<h3>mode local</h3>
<p>Within this mode, the launchers have either one or two vectors
describing them. All of these vectors are treated as programs
and are executed with the system call ‘execve’.</p>
<p>The first vector is the leader vector and it defines the process
group. The second vector (if any) is attached to the group
defined by this first vector.</p>
<a name="mode.remote"></a>
<h3>mode remote</h3>
<p>Within this mode, the launchers have either one or two vectors
describing them.</p>
<p>The first vector is treated as a program and is executed with
the system call ‘execve’.</p>
<p>The second vector (if any) defines a text that is returned
to the caller. This mechanism can be used to return the uri
to connect to for executing the application remotely.</p>
<p>The daemon <strong><em>afm-user-daemon</em></strong> allocates a port for the
running the application remotely.
The current implmentation of the port allocation is just
incremental.
A more reliable (cacheable and same-originable) allocation
is to be defined.</p>
<a name="L.substitutions"></a>
<h3>%substitutions</h3>
<p>Vectors can include sequences of 2 characters that have a special
meaning. These sequences are named <em>%substitution</em> because their
first character is the percent sign (%) and because each occurrence
of the sequence is replaced, at launch time, by the value associated
to sequences.</p>
<p>Here is the list of <em>%substitutions</em>:</p>
<ul>
<li><p><strong><em>%%</em></strong>: %.</p>
<p>This simply emits the percent sign %</p></li>
<li><p><strong><em>%a</em></strong>: appid</p>
<p>This is the application Id of the launched application.</p>
<p>Defined by the attribute <strong>id</strong> of the element <strong><widget></strong>
of <strong>config.xml</strong>.</p></li>
<li><p><strong><em>%c</em></strong>: content</p>
<p>The file within the widget directory that is the entry point.</p>
<p>For a HTML application, it is the relative path to the main
page (aka index.html).</p>
<p>Defined by the attribute <strong>src</strong> of the element <strong><content></strong>
of <strong>config.xml</strong>.</p></li>
<li><p><strong><em>%D</em></strong>: datadir</p>
<p>Path of the directory where the application runs (cwd)
and stores its data.</p>
<p>It is equal to %h/%a.</p></li>
<li><p><strong><em>%H</em></strong>: height</p>
<p>Requested height for the widget.</p>
<p>Defined by the attribute <strong>height</strong> of the element <strong><widget></strong>
of <strong>config.xml</strong>.</p></li>
<li><p><strong><em>%h</em></strong>: homedir</p>
<p>Path of the home directory for all applications.</p>
<p>It is generally equal to $HOME/app-data</p></li>
<li><p><strong><em>%I</em></strong>: icondir</p>
<p>Path of the directory were the icons of the applications can be found.</p></li>
<li><p><strong><em>%m</em></strong>: mime-type</p>
<p>Mime type of the launched application.</p>
<p>Defined by the attribute <strong>type</strong> of the element <strong><content></strong>
of <strong>config.xml</strong>.</p></li>
<li><p><strong><em>%n</em></strong>: name</p>
<p>Name of the application as defined by the content of the
element <strong><name></strong> of <strong>config.xml</strong>.</p></li>
<li><p><strong><em>%p</em></strong>: plugins</p>
<p>Unhandled until now.</p>
<p>Will be the colon separated list of plugins and plugins directory.</p></li>
<li><p><strong><em>%P</em></strong>: port</p>
<p>A port to use. It is currently a kind of random port. The precise
model is to be defined later.</p></li>
<li><p><strong><em>%R</em></strong>: readyfd</p>
<p>Number of the file descriptor to use for signalling
readyness of the launched process.</p></li>
<li><p><strong><em>%r</em></strong>: rootdir</p>
<p>Path of the directory containing the widget and its data.</p></li>
<li><p><strong><em>%S</em></strong>: secret</p>
<p>An hexadecimal number that can be used to pair the client
with its server binder.</p></li>
<li><p><strong><em>%W</em></strong>: width</p>
<p>Requested width for the widget.</p>
<p>Defined by the attribute <strong>width</strong> of the element <strong><widget></strong>
of <strong>config.xml</strong>.</p></li>
</ul>
<a name="The.D-Bus.interface"></a>
<h2>The D-Bus interface</h2>
<a name="Overview.of.the.dbus.interface"></a>
<h3>Overview of the dbus interface</h3>
<p><strong><em>afm-user-daemon</em></strong> 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.</p>
<p>The dbus of the session is by default adressed by the environment
variable <strong><em>DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS</em></strong>. Using <strong>systemd</strong>
the variable <em>DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS</em> is automatically set for
user sessions.</p>
<p>The <strong>afm-user-daemon</strong> is listening with the destination name
<strong><em>org.AGL.afm.user</em></strong> at the object of path <strong><em>/org/AGL/afm/user</em></strong>
on the interface <strong><em>org.AGL.afm.user</em></strong> for the below detailed
members <strong><em>runnables</em></strong>, <strong><em>detail</em></strong>, <strong><em>start</em></strong>, <strong><em>terminate</em></strong>,
<strong><em>stop</em></strong>, <strong><em>continue</em></strong>, <strong><em>runners</em></strong>, <strong><em>state</em></strong>,
<strong><em>install</em></strong> and <strong><em>uninstall</em></strong>.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The client and the service are using JSON serialisation to
exchange data.</p>
<p>The D-Bus interface is defined by:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>DESTINATION: <strong>org.AGL.afm.user</strong></p></li>
<li><p>PATH: <strong>/org/AGL/afm/user</strong></p></li>
<li><p>INTERFACE: <strong>org.AGL.afm.user</strong></p></li>
</ul>
<p>The signature of any member of the interface is <strong><em>string -> string</em></strong>
for <strong><em>JSON -> JSON</em></strong>.</p>
<p>This is the normal case. In case of error, the current implmentation
returns a dbus error that is a string.</p>
<p>Here is an example that use <em>dbus-send</em> to query data on
installed applications.</p>
<pre><code>dbus-send --session --print-reply \
--dest=org.AGL.afm.user \
/org/AGL/afm/user \
org.AGL.afm.user.runnables string:true
</code></pre>
<a name="Using..strong..em.afm-util..em...strong."></a>
<h3>Using <strong><em>afm-util</em></strong></h3>
<p>The command line tool <strong><em>afm-util</em></strong> uses dbus-send to send
orders to <strong>afm-user-daemon</strong>. This small scripts allows to
send command to <strong><em>afm-user-daemon</em></strong> either interactively
at shell prompt or scriptically.</p>
<p>The syntax is simple: it accept a command and if the command
requires it, the argument to the command.</p>
<p>Here is the summary of <strong><em>afm-util</em></strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li><p><strong>afm-util runnables </strong>:</p>
<p>list the runnable widgets installed</p></li>
<li><p><strong>afm-util install wgt </strong>:</p>
<p>install the wgt file</p></li>
<li><p><strong>afm-util uninstall id </strong>:</p>
<p>remove the installed widget of id</p></li>
<li><p><strong>afm-util detail id </strong>:</p>
<p>print detail about the installed widget of id</p></li>
<li><p><strong>afm-util runners </strong>:</p>
<p>list the running instance</p></li>
<li><p><strong>afm-util start id </strong>:</p>
<p>start an instance of the widget of id</p></li>
<li><p><strong>afm-util terminate rid </strong>:</p>
<p>terminate the running instance rid</p></li>
<li><p><strong>afm-util stop rid </strong>:</p>
<p>stop the running instance rid</p></li>
<li><p><strong>afm-util continue rid </strong>:</p>
<p>continue the previously rid</p></li>
<li><p><strong>afm-util state rid </strong>:</p>
<p>get status of the running instance rid</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Here is how to list applications using <strong><em>afm-util</em></strong>:</p>
<pre><code>afm-util runnables
</code></pre>
<hr />
<a name="The.protocol.over.D-Bus"></a>
<h3>The protocol over D-Bus</h3>
<p>Recall:</p>
<ul>
<li><p><strong>DESTINATION</strong>: org.AGL.afm.user</p></li>
<li><p><strong>PATH</strong>: /org/AGL/afm/user</p></li>
<li><p><strong>INTERFACE</strong>: org.AGL.afm.user</p></li>
</ul>
<hr />
<a name="Method.org.AGL.afm.user.detail"></a>
<h4>Method org.AGL.afm.user.detail</h4>
<p><strong>Description</strong>: Get details about an application from its id.</p>
<p><strong>Input</strong>: the id of the application as below.</p>
<p>Either just a string:</p>
<pre><code>"appli@x.y"
</code></pre>
<p>Or an object having the field “id” of type string:</p>
<pre><code>{"id":"appli@x.y"}
</code></pre>
<p><strong>Output</strong>: A JSON object describing the application containing
the fields described below.</p>
<pre><code>{
"id": string, the application id (id@version)
"version": string, the version of the application
"width": integer, requested width of the application
"height": integer, resqueted height of the application
"name": string, the name of the application
"description": string, the description of the application
"shortname": string, the short name of the application
"author": string, the author of the application
}
</code></pre>
<hr />
<a name="Method.org.AGL.afm.user.runnables"></a>
<h4>Method org.AGL.afm.user.runnables</h4>
<p><strong>Description</strong>: Get the list of applications that can be run.</p>
<p><strong>Input</strong>: any valid json entry, can be anything except null.</p>
<p><strong>output</strong>: An array of description of the runnable applications.
Each item of the array contains an object containing the detail of
an application as described above for the method
<em>org.AGL.afm.user.detail</em>.</p>
<hr />
<a name="Method.org.AGL.afm.user.install"></a>
<h4>Method org.AGL.afm.user.install</h4>
<p><strong>Description</strong>: Install an application from its widget file.</p>
<p>If an application of the same <em>id</em> and <em>version</em> exists, it is not
reinstalled except if <em>force=true</em>.</p>
<p>Applications are installed in the subdirectories of the common directory
of applications.
If <em>root</em> is specified, the application is installed under the
sub-directories of the <em>root</em> defined.</p>
<p>Note that this methods is a simple accessor to the method
<strong><em>org.AGL.afm.system.install</em></strong> of <strong><em>afm-system-daemon</em></strong>.</p>
<p>After the installation and before returning to the sender,
<strong><em>afm-user-daemon</em></strong> sends the signal <strong><em>org.AGL.afm.user.changed</em></strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Input</strong>: The <em>path</em> of the widget file to install and, optionaly,
a flag to <em>force</em> reinstallation, and, optionaly, a <em>root</em> directory.</p>
<p>Either just a string being the absolute path of the widget file:</p>
<pre><code>"/a/path/driving/to/the/widget"
</code></pre>
<p>Or an object:</p>
<pre><code>{
"wgt": "/a/path/to/the/widget",
"force": false,
"root": "/a/path/to/the/root"
}
</code></pre>
<p>“wgt” and “root” must be absolute paths.</p>
<p><strong>output</strong>: An object with the field “added” being the string for
the id of the added application.</p>
<pre><code>{"added":"appli@x.y"}
</code></pre>
<hr />
<a name="Method.org.AGL.afm.user.uninstall"></a>
<h4>Method org.AGL.afm.user.uninstall</h4>
<p><strong>Description</strong>: Uninstall an application from its id.</p>
<p>Note that this methods is a simple accessor to the method
<strong><em>org.AGL.afm.system.uninstall</em></strong> of <strong><em>afm-system-daemon</em></strong>.</p>
<p>After the uninstallation and before returning to the sender,
<strong><em>afm-user-daemon</em></strong> sends the signal <strong><em>org.AGL.afm.user.changed</em></strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Input</strong>: the <em>id</em> of the application and, otpionaly, the path to
<em>root</em> of the application.</p>
<p>Either a string:</p>
<pre><code>"appli@x.y"
</code></pre>
<p>Or an object:</p>
<pre><code>{
"id": "appli@x.y",
"root": "/a/path/to/the/root"
}
</code></pre>
<p><strong>output</strong>: the value ‘true’.</p>
<hr />
<a name="Method.org.AGL.afm.user.start"></a>
<h4>Method org.AGL.afm.user.start</h4>
<p><strong>Description</strong>:</p>
<p><strong>Input</strong>: the <em>id</em> of the application and, optionaly, the
start <em>mode</em> as below.</p>
<p>Either just a string:</p>
<pre><code>"appli@x.y"
</code></pre>
<p>Or an object having the field “id” of type string and
optionaly a field mode:</p>
<pre><code>{"id":"appli@x.y","mode":"local"}
</code></pre>
<p>The field “mode” as a string value being either “local” or “remote”.</p>
<p><strong>output</strong>: The <em>runid</em> of the application launched.
The runid is an integer.</p>
<hr />
<a name="Method.org.AGL.afm.user.terminate"></a>
<h4>Method org.AGL.afm.user.terminate</h4>
<p><strong>Description</strong>: Terminates the application of <em>runid</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Input</strong>: The <em>runid</em> (an integer) of the running instance to terminate.</p>
<p><strong>output</strong>: the value ‘true’.</p>
<hr />
<a name="Method.org.AGL.afm.user.stop"></a>
<h4>Method org.AGL.afm.user.stop</h4>
<p><strong>Description</strong>: Stops the application of <em>runid</em> until terminate or continue.</p>
<p><strong>Input</strong>: The <em>runid</em> (an integer) of the running instance to stop.</p>
<p><strong>output</strong>: the value ‘true’.</p>
<hr />
<a name="Method.org.AGL.afm.user.continue"></a>
<h4>Method org.AGL.afm.user.continue</h4>
<p><strong>Description</strong>: Continues the application of <em>runid</em> previously stopped.</p>
<p><strong>Input</strong>: The <em>runid</em> (an integer) of the running instance to continue.</p>
<p><strong>output</strong>: the value ‘true’.</p>
<hr />
<a name="Method.org.AGL.afm.user.state"></a>
<h4>Method org.AGL.afm.user.state</h4>
<p><strong>Description</strong>: Get informations about a running instance of <em>runid</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Input</strong>: The <em>runid</em> (an integer) of the running instance inspected.</p>
<p><strong>output</strong>: An object describing the state of the instance. It contains:
the runid (an integer), the id of the running application (a string),
the state of the application (a string being either “starting”, “running”
or “stopped”).</p>
<p>Example of returned state:</p>
<pre><code>{
"runid": 2,
"state": "running",
"id": "appli@x.y"
}
</code></pre>
<hr />
<a name="Method.org.AGL.afm.user.runners"></a>
<h4>Method org.AGL.afm.user.runners</h4>
<p><strong>Description</strong>: Get the list of the currently running instances.</p>
<p><strong>Input</strong>: anything.</p>
<p><strong>output</strong>: An array of states, one per running instance, as returned by
the methodd <strong><em>org.AGL.afm.user.state</em></strong>.</p>
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