Updated API documentation to reflect the addition of version validation feature

Issue-ID: POLICY-2316
Change-Id: I981f7998926931d4bc2cd6a3bb0781071f768fae
Signed-off-by: Chenfei Gao <cgao@research.att.com>

5 files changed, 92 insertions, 46 deletions

diff --git a/docs/api/api.rst b/docs/api/api.rst
index ecaf4151..a54ed4a4 100644
--- a/docs/api/api.rst
+++ b/docs/api/api.rst
@@ -8,29 +8,28 @@ Policy Life Cycle API
 #####################
 
 .. contents::
-    :depth: 2 
+    :depth: 2
 
-
-Policy life cycle API comprises of policy design API and policy deployment API. This documentation focuses on policy 
-design API. Policy design API is publicly exposed for clients to Create/Read/Update/Delete (CRUD) policy types, policy type 
-implementation and policies which can be recognized and executable by appropriate policy engines incorporated in ONAP 
-policy framework. Policy design API backend is running in an independent building block component of policy framework 
-that provides REST service for aforementioned CRUD behaviors. Policy design API component interacts with a policy database 
+Policy life cycle API comprises of policy design API and policy deployment API. This documentation focuses on policy
+design API. Policy design API is publicly exposed for clients to Create/Read/Update/Delete (CRUD) policy types, policy type
+implementation and policies which can be recognized and executable by appropriate policy engines incorporated in ONAP
+policy framework. Policy design API backend is running in an independent building block component of policy framework
+that provides REST service for aforementioned CRUD behaviors. Policy design API component interacts with a policy database
 for storing and fetching new policies or policy types as needed. Apart from CRUD, API is also exposed for clients to retrieve
-healthcheck status of this API REST service and statistics report including a variety of counters that reflect the history 
+healthcheck status of this API REST service and statistics report including a variety of counters that reflect the history
 of API invocation.
 
-Starting from Dublin release, we strictly follow `TOSCA Specification <http://docs.oasis-open.org/tosca/TOSCA-Simple-Profile-YAML/v1.1/TOSCA-Simple-Profile-YAML-v1.1.pdf>`_ 
+Starting from Dublin release, we strictly follow `TOSCA Specification <http://docs.oasis-open.org/tosca/TOSCA-Simple-Profile-YAML/v1.1/TOSCA-Simple-Profile-YAML-v1.1.pdf>`_
 to define policy type and policy. Policy type is equivalent to policy model mentioned by clients before Dublin release.
-Both policy type and policy are included in a TOSCA Service Template which is used as the entity passed into API POST call 
+Both policy type and policy are included in a TOSCA Service Template which is used as the entity passed into API POST call
 and the entity returned by API GET and DELETE calls. More details are presented in following sessions.
-We encourage clients to compose all kinds of policies and corresponding policy types in well-formed TOSCA Service Template. 
-One Service Template can contain one or more policies and policy types. Each policy type can have multiple policies created 
+We encourage clients to compose all kinds of policies and corresponding policy types in well-formed TOSCA Service Template.
+One Service Template can contain one or more policies and policy types. Each policy type can have multiple policies created
 atop. In other words, different policies can match the same or different policy types. Existence of a policy type is a prerequisite
 of creating such type of policies. In the payload body of each policy to create, policy type name and version should be indicated and
-the specified policy type should be valid and existing in policy database. 
+the specified policy type should be valid and existing in policy database.
 
-In El Alto release, to ease policy creation, we preload several widely used policy types in policy database. Below is a table summarizing 
+Starting from El Alto release, to ease policy creation, we preload several widely used policy types in policy database. Below is a table summarizing
 preloaded policy types.
 
 .. csv-table::
@@ -55,8 +54,8 @@ preloaded policy types.
    "Optimization.Vim_fit", `onap.policies.optimization.Vim_fit.yaml <https://github.com/onap/policy-models/blob/master/models-examples/src/main/resources/policytypes/onap.policies.optimization.Vim_fit.yaml>`_
    "Optimization.VnfPolicy", `onap.policies.optimization.VnfPolicy.yaml <https://github.com/onap/policy-models/blob/master/models-examples/src/main/resources/policytypes/onap.policies.optimization.VnfPolicy.yaml>`_
 
-Also, in El Alto release, We provide backward compatibility support for controlloop operational and guard 
-policies encoded in legacy format. Below is a table containing sample legacy guard/operational policies and 
+Also, in El Alto release, We provide backward compatibility support for controlloop operational and guard
+policies encoded in legacy format. Below is a table containing sample legacy guard/operational policies and
 well-formed TOSCA monitoring policies.
 
 .. csv-table::
@@ -74,8 +73,7 @@ well-formed TOSCA monitoring policies.
    "vFirewall.Operational.Legacy", `vFirewall.policy.operational.input.json <https://github.com/onap/policy-models/blob/master/models-examples/src/main/resources/policies/vFirewall.policy.operational.input.json>`_
 
 
-Below is a global API table from where swagger JSON for different types of policy design API can be downloaded.  
-
+Below is a global API table from where swagger JSON for different types of policy design API can be downloaded.
 Global API Table
 --------------------
 .. csv-table::
@@ -92,29 +90,29 @@ Global API Table
 API Swagger
 --------------------
 
-It is worth noting that we use basic authorization for API access with username and password set to *healthcheck* and *zb!XztG34* respectively. 
+It is worth noting that we use basic authorization for API access with username and password set to *healthcheck* and *zb!XztG34* respectively.
 Also, the new APIs support both *http* and *https*.
 
-For every API call, client is encouraged to insert an uuid-type requestID as parameter. It is helpful for tracking each http transaction 
-and facilitates debugging. Mostly importantly, it complies with Logging requirements v1.2. If client does not provider the requestID in API call,
-one will be randomly generated and attached to response header *x-onap-requestid*.
+For every API call, client is encouraged to insert an uuid-type requestID as parameter.
+It is helpful for tracking each http transaction and facilitates debugging.
+Mostly importantly, it complies with Logging requirements v1.2.
+If client does not provider the requestID in API call, one will be randomly generated
+and attached to response header *x-onap-requestid*.
 
 In accordance with `ONAP API Common Versioning Strategy Guidelines <https://wiki.onap.org/display/DW/ONAP+API+Common+Versioning+Strategy+%28CVS%29+Guidelines>`_,
 in the response of each API call, several custom headers are added::
 
-    x-latestversion: 1.0.0  
-    x-minorversion: 0    
-    x-patchversion: 0 
+    x-latestversion: 1.0.0
+    x-minorversion: 0
+    x-patchversion: 0
     x-onap-requestid: e1763e61-9eef-4911-b952-1be1edd9812b
-    
-x-latestversion is used only to communicate an API's latest version.
+    x-latestversion is used only to communicate an API's latest version.
 
 x-minorversion is used to request or communicate a MINOR version back from the client to the server, and from the server back to the client.
 
 x-patchversion is used only to communicate a PATCH version in a response for troubleshooting purposes only, and will not be provided by the client on request.
 
 x-onap-requestid is used to track REST transactions for logging purpose, as described above.
-    
 
 .. swaggerv2doc:: swagger/healthcheck-api.json
 
@@ -124,34 +122,69 @@ x-onap-requestid is used to track REST transactions for logging purpose, as desc
 
 .. swaggerv2doc:: swagger/policy-api.json
 
-It is worth noting that in POST policy API, client needs to provide a policy payload encoded in well-formed TOSCA Service Template, and 
-in the JSON/YAML payload, "type" field value should strictly match the policy type name embedded in the API path (case sensitive). 
-Otherwise, it will complain the policy type does not exist. Please check out the sample policies in above policy table.
+When making a POST policy API call, the client must not only provide well-formed JSON/YAML,
+but also must conform to the TOSCA specification. For example. the "type" field for a TOSCA
+policy should strictly match the policy type name it derives.
+Please check out the sample policies in above policy table.
+
+Also, in the POST payload passed into each policy or policy type creation call (i.e. POST API invocation), the client needs to explicitly
+specify the version of the policy or policy type to create. That being said, the "version" field is mandatory in the TOSCA service template
+formatted policy or policy type payload. Likewise in the legacy guard and the operational policy payload, "policy-version" is mandatory too.
+If the version is missing, that POST call will return "406 - Not Acceptable" and the policy or policy type to create will not be stored in
+the database.
+
+To avoid inconsistent versions between the database and policies deployed in the PDPs, policy API REST service employs some enforcement
+rules that validate the version specified in the POST payload when a new version is to create or an existing version to update.
+Policy API will not blindly override the version of the policy or policy type to create/update.
+Instead, we encourage the client to carefully select a version for the policy or policy type to change and meanwhile policy API will check the validity
+of the version and feed an informative warning back to the client if the specified version is not good.
+To be specific, the following rules are implemented to enforce the version:
+
+1. If the version is not in the database, we simply insert it. For example: if policy version 1.0.0 is stored in the database and now
+   a client wants to create the same policy with updated version 3.0.0, this POST call will succeed and return "200" to the client.
+
+2. If the version is already in the database, "406 - Not Acceptable" will be returned along with the message saying "specified version x.x.x"
+   is already existing and the latest version is y.y.y. It can force the client to create a newer version than the latest one.
+   For example, if policy versions "1.0.0" and "2.0.0" are already in the database and a client wants to create version "1.0.0" again, the
+   client will get "406" code returned along with the message "specified version 1.0.0 is already existing and the latest version is 2.0.0".
+   Then the client can change the version to anything newer than "2.0.0", such as "3.0.0".
+
+3. If multiple policies or policy types are included in the POST payload, policy API will also check if duplicate version exists in between
+   any two policies or policy types provided in the payload. For example, a client provides a POST payload which includes two policies with the same
+   name and version but different policy properties. This POST call will fail and return "406" error back to the calling application along with a
+   message such as "duplicate policy {name}:{version} found in the payload".
+
+4. The same version validation is applied to legacy types of policies and policy types too (i.e. legacy guard and operational) so that everything
+   is consistent.
+
+5. To avoid unnecessary id/version inconsistency between the ones specified in the entity fields and the ones returned in the metadata field,
+   "policy-id" and "policy-version" in the metadata will only be set by policy API. Any incoming explicit specification in the POST payload will be
+   ignored. For example, A POST payload has a policy with name "sample-policy-name1" and version "1.0.0" specified. In this policy, the metadata
+   also includes "policy-id": "sample-policy-name2" and "policy-version": "2.0.0". The 200 return of this POST call will have this created policy with
+   metadata including "policy-id": "sample-policy-name1" and "policy-version": "1.0.0".
 
 .. swaggerv2doc:: swagger/guard-policy-api.json
 
 It is worth noting that guard policy name should start with one of the three: *guard.frequency.*, *guard.minmax.*, or *guard.blacklist.*.
-Otherwise, it will complain that guard policy type cannot be found (does not exist). Apart from policy name, the policy version specified 
+Otherwise, it will complain that guard policy type cannot be found (does not exist). Apart from policy name, the policy version specified
 in API path should be an integer, e.g. 1, 2, 10, instead of "1.0.0", "2.0.1", etc.
-These naming restrictions will disappear after we evolve to use well-formed TOSCA Service Template for guard policies and 
+These naming restrictions will disappear after we evolve to use well-formed TOSCA Service Template for guard policies and
 legacy policy design API is then deprecated.
 
 .. swaggerv2doc:: swagger/operational-policy-api.json
 
-Likewise, the policy version specified in operational policy API path should be an integer too, e.g. 1, 2, 10, instead of 
+Likewise, the policy version specified in operational policy API path should be an integer too, e.g. 1, 2, 10, instead of
 "1.0.0", "2.0.1", etc. This restriction will disappear after we deprecate legacy policy design API in the near future release.
 
-
-Regarding DELETE APIs for both TOSCA policies and legacy policies, we only expose API to delete one particular version of policy 
-or policy type at a time for safety purpose. If client has the need to delete multiple or a group of policies or policy types, 
-they will need to delete one by one.  
+Regarding DELETE APIs for both TOSCA policies and legacy policies, we only expose API to delete one particular version of policy
+or policy type at a time for safety purpose. If client has the need to delete multiple or a group of policies or policy types,
+they will need to delete one by one.
 
 Sample API Curl Commands
 -------------------------
 
-From API client perspective, using *http* or *https* does not have much difference in curl command. Here we list some sample curl commands (using *http*) 
-for POST, GET and DELETE monitoring and operational policies that are used in vFirewall use case. 
-
+From API client perspective, using *http* or *https* does not have much difference in curl command.
+Here we list some sample curl commands (using *http*) for POST, GET and DELETE monitoring and operational policies that are used in vFirewall use case.
 JSON payload for POST calls can be downloaded from policy table above.
 
 Create vFirewall Monitoring Policy::
@@ -159,17 +192,15 @@ Create vFirewall Monitoring Policy::
 
 Get vFirewall Monitoring Policy::
   curl --user 'healthcheck:zb!XztG34' -X GET "http://{ip}:{port}/policy/api/v1/policytypes/onap.policies.monitoring.cdap.tca.hi.lo.app/versions/1.0.0/policies/onap.vfirewall.tca/versions/1.0.0" -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json"
-  
+ 
 Delete vFirewall Monitoring Policy::
   curl --user 'healthcheck:zb!XztG34' -X DELETE "http://{ip}:{port}/policy/api/v1/policytypes/onap.policies.monitoring.cdap.tca.hi.lo.app/versions/1.0.0/policies/onap.vfirewall.tca/versions/1.0.0" -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json"
 
 Create vFirewall Operational Policy::
   curl --user 'healthcheck:zb!XztG34' -X POST "http://{ip}:{port}/policy/api/v1/policytypes/onap.policies.controlloop.Operational/versions/1.0.0/policies" -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @vFirewall.policy.operational.input.json
-  
+ 
 Get vFirewall Operational Policy::
   curl --user 'healthcheck:zb!XztG34' -X GET "http://{ip}:{port}/policy/api/v1/policytypes/onap.policies.controlloop.Operational/versions/1.0.0/policies/operational.modifyconfig/versions/1" -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json"
-  
+ 
 Delete vFirewall Operational Policy::
   curl --user 'healthcheck:zb!XztG34' -X DELETE "http://{ip}:{port}/policy/api/v1/policytypes/onap.policies.controlloop.Operational/versions/1.0.0/policies/operational.modifyconfig/versions/1" -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json"
-
-  
diff --git a/docs/api/swagger/guard-policy-api.json b/docs/api/swagger/guard-policy-api.json
index 87b45081..501312e5 100644
--- a/docs/api/swagger/guard-policy-api.json
+++ b/docs/api/swagger/guard-policy-api.json
@@ -371,6 +371,9 @@
           "403" : {
             "description" : "Authorization Error"
           },
+          "406" : {
+            "description" : "Not Acceptable Version"
+          },
           "500" : {
             "description" : "Internal Server Error"
           }
diff --git a/docs/api/swagger/operational-policy-api.json b/docs/api/swagger/operational-policy-api.json
index 63d36dfe..90a0e517 100644
--- a/docs/api/swagger/operational-policy-api.json
+++ b/docs/api/swagger/operational-policy-api.json
@@ -358,6 +358,9 @@
           "403" : {
             "description" : "Authorization Error"
           },
+          "406" : {
+            "description" : "Not Acceptable Version"
+          },
           "500" : {
             "description" : "Internal Server Error"
           }
diff --git a/docs/api/swagger/policy-api.json b/docs/api/swagger/policy-api.json
index c95c960b..ef070ef7 100644
--- a/docs/api/swagger/policy-api.json
+++ b/docs/api/swagger/policy-api.json
@@ -154,6 +154,9 @@
           "404" : {
             "description" : "Resource Not Found"
           },
+          "406" : {
+            "description" : "Not Acceptable Version"
+          },
           "500" : {
             "description" : "Internal Server Error"
           }
@@ -651,6 +654,9 @@
           "404" : {
             "description" : "Resource Not Found"
           },
+          "406" : {
+            "description" : "Not Acceptable Version"
+          },
           "500" : {
             "description" : "Internal Server Error"
           }
diff --git a/docs/api/swagger/policytype-api.json b/docs/api/swagger/policytype-api.json
index 5f2de048..627f318e 100644
--- a/docs/api/swagger/policytype-api.json
+++ b/docs/api/swagger/policytype-api.json
@@ -124,6 +124,9 @@
           "403" : {
             "description" : "Authorization Error"
           },
+          "406" : {
+            "description" : "Not Acceptable Version"
+          },
           "500" : {
             "description" : "Internal Server Error"
           }