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+.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

+.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

+

+.. _cdap-specification:

+

+Component specification (CDAP)

+==============================

+

+The CDAP component specification contains the following groups of

+information. Many of these are common to both CDAP and Docker components

+and are therefore described in the common specification.

+

+-  :any:`Metadata <metadata>`

+-  :any:`Interfaces <interfaces>` including the

+   associated :any:`Data Formats <data-formats>`

+-  :any:`Parameters <parameters>` - for specifying parameters in your

+   AppConfig, AppPreferences, and ProgramPreferences to the Designer and

+   Policy. This of course is CDAP-specific and is described below.

+-  :any:`Auxiliary Details <auxiliary-details>`

+-  :any:`List of artifacts <artifacts>`

+

+Current Limitations and TODOs

+-----------------------------

+

+-  The integration of DMD is likely to significantly change the

+   :any:`Interfaces <interfaces>` section in this specification, see

+   :any:`DMaaP abstraction <dmaap-abstraction>`.

+

+.. _parameters:

+

+Parameters

+----------

+

+There is a ``parameters`` section in your component specification. This

+section contains three optional keys: `app_config <#appconfig>`__,

+`app_preferences <#apppreferences>`__, and

+`propram_preferences <#programpreferences>`__:

+

+::

+

+    "parameters" : {

+        "app_config" : [ ...],               

+        "app_preferences" : [ ...],          

+        "program_preferences" : [...]

+        // any additional keys are ignored

+    }

+

+-  Each section details the parameters that are a part of each of these

+   CDAP constructs (see below).

+-  All such parameters will be exposed to the designer and to policy for

+   override.

+-  These parameters should have default values specified by the

+   component developer where necessary, i.e., parameters that *must*

+   come from the designer/policy should not have defaults.

+-  All of these keys are optional because not every CDAP application

+   uses preferences and not every application uses the AppConfig.

+   However, you should specify at least one, or else your application

+   will have no parameters exposed to policy or to the DCAE designer,

+   which means it would be non-configurable.

+-  Despite the AppConfig being optional to *specify* in the case that

+   you have no parameters in your AppConfig, it is *required for

+   processing* in your application. That is because the DCAE platform

+   will place important information into your AppConfig as discussed

+   below.

+

+Parameter

+~~~~~~~~~

+

+The following CDAP specific definitions use ``param1`` to refer to the

+common parameter layout in

+:any:`Parameter <parameters>`

+

+AppConfig

+~~~~~~~~~

+

+The ``app_config`` key refers to the `CDAP AppConfig <http://docs.cask.co/cdap/current/en/reference-manual/http-restful-api/configuration.html>`_.

+It is expected to be a JSON:

+

+::

+

+    "app_config" : [ // list of JSON

+        param1,      // common parameter layout

+        ...

+    ]

+

+Unfortunately, at the time of writing, the AppConfig is a Java map of

+``string:string``, which means you cannot have more complex structures

+(than string) as any value in your AppConfig. However, there is a way to

+bypass this constraint: you can pass a JSON by encoding the JSON as a

+string. E.g., the ``json.dumps()`` and it’s converse ``loads`` methods

+in Python:

+

+::

+

+    >>> import json

+    >>> json.dumps({"foo" : "bar"})     # This is a real JSON

+    '{"foo": "bar"}'                    # It is now a string: pass this in as your parameter value

+    >>> json.loads('{"foo": "bar"}')    # Do the equivelent of this in your application

+    {u'foo': u'bar'}                    # ...and you'll get back a real JSON 

+    >>>

+

+The final AppConfig (after the designer and policy override parameter

+values) is passed into CDAP’s AppConfig API when starting the

+application.

+

+

+AppPreferences

+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+

+In addition to the CDAP AppConfig, the platform supports `Application Preferences <http://docs.cask.co/cdap/current/en/reference-manual/http-restful-api/preferences.html#set-preferences>`_.

+The format of the ``app_preferences`` value is the same as the above:

+

+::

+

+    "app_preferences" : [   // list of JSON

+        param1,      // common parameter layout

+        ...

+    ]

+

+The final Application Preferences JSON (after the designer and policy

+override parameter values) is passed into CDAP’s Preferences API when

+starting your application.

+

+

+ProgramPreferences

+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+

+Preferences can also be specified `per program <http://docs.cask.co/cdap/current/en/reference-manual/http-restful-api/lifecycle.html#program-lifecycle>`_

+in CDAP. This key’s value is a list of JSON with the following format:

+

+::

+

+    "program_preferences" : [                // note: this is a list of JSON 

+        {

+          "program_id" :   "program name 1",  // the name of this CDAP program

+          "program_type" : "e.g., flows",     // "must be one of flows, mapreduce, schedules, spark, workflows, workers, or services",

+          "program_pref" : [                  // list of JSON

+          param1,      // common parameter layout

+              ...

+          ]

+        },

+        // repeat for each program that receives a program_preferences JSON 

+    ]

+

+Each ``program_pref`` JSON is passed into the CDAP API as the preference

+for ``program_id``.

+

+NOTE: for CDAP, this section is very likely to change when DMD is

+available. The *future* vision, as per :any:`DMaaP intentionally abstracted <dmaap-abstraction>` is

+that you would publish your data as a series of files on HDFS, and DMD

+will pick them up and send them to the appropriate DMaaP feeds or

+directly when needed.

+

+.. _auxiliary-details:

+

+Auxiliary Details

+-----------------

+

+*auxiliary* contains details about CDAP specific parameters.

+

++----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+| Property Name        | Type                 | Description          |

++======================+======================+======================+

+| streamname           | string               | *Required*.          |

++----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+| artifact_name        | string               |                      |

++----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+| artifact_version     | string               | the version of your  |

+|                      |                      | CDAP JAR artifact    |

++----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+| namespace            | string               | the CDAP namespace   |

+|                      |                      | to deploy into,      |

+|                      |                      | default is ‘default’ |

++----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+| programs             | array                | contains each CDAP   |

+|                      |                      | entity represented   |

+|                      |                      | in the artifact      |

++----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+| program_type         | string               | CDAP entity (eg      |

+|                      |                      | “flows”)             |

++----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+| program_id           | string               | name of CDAP entity  |

+|                      |                      | (eg “WhoFlow”)       |

++----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+

+Example:

+

+.. code:: json

+

+    "auxiliary": {

+        "streamname" : "who",

+        "artifact_name" : "HelloWorld",

+        "artifact_version" : "3.4.3",

+        "namespace" : "hw",

+        "programs" : [

+                        {"program_type" : "flows", "program_id" : "WhoFlow"}, 

+                        {"program_type" : "services", "program_id" : "Greeting"},

+                        ...

+                      ],

+    }

+

+The ``programs`` key is identical to the ``program_preferences`` key

+discussed `above <#programpreferences>`__ except:

+

+-  each JSON in the list does not contain ``program_pref``

+-  this is required! You must include all of your programs in this, as

+   it is used to start each program as well as for DCAE to perform

+   periodic healthchecks on your application. Don’t forget about your

+   services; they are programs too.