Dcoument new VFC Actor

Issue-ID: POLICY-2515
Change-Id: Ib31ffd3aaeae14eeb5eec2e898fb1012046c3584
Signed-off-by: Jim Hahn <jrh3@att.com>

1 files changed, 158 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/docs/development/actors/vfc/vfc.rst b/docs/development/actors/vfc/vfc.rst
index c99c9340..e7d8d3e7 100644
--- a/docs/development/actors/vfc/vfc.rst
+++ b/docs/development/actors/vfc/vfc.rst
@@ -2,14 +2,168 @@
 .. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
 .. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
 
-#################
+.. _vfc-label:
+
+##########
 VFC Actor
-#################
+##########
 
 .. contents::
     :depth: 3
 
 Overview of VFC Actor
-#############################
+######################
+ONAP Policy Framework enables VFC as one of the supported actors.
+
+.. note::
+There has not been any support given to the Policy Framework project for the VFC Actor
+in several releases. Thus, the code and information provided is to the best of the
+knowledge of the team. If there are any questions or problems, please consult the VFC
+Project to help provide guidance.
+
+VFC uses a REST-based
+interface.  However, as requests may not complete right away, a REST-based polling
+interface is used to check the status of the request.  The *jobId* is extracted
+from each response and is appended to the *pathGet* configuration parameter to
+generate the URL used to poll for completion.
+
+Each operation supported by the actor is associated with its own java class, which is
+responsible for populating the request structure appropriately and sending the request.
+The operation-specific classes are all derived from the *VfcOperation* class, which is,
+itself, derived from *HttpOperation*.  The following operations are currently supported:
+
+- Restart
+
+
+Request
+#######
+
+A number of nested structures are populated within the request.  Several of them are
+populated from items found within the A&AI "enrichment" data provided by DCAE with
+the ONSET event.  The following table lists the contents of some of the fields that
+appear within these structures.
+
++----------------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| Field Name                       |  Type   |                         Description                                  |
++----------------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
++----------------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| top level:                       |         |                                                                      |
++----------------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| *requestId*                      | string  |   Inserted by Policy. Maps to the UUID sent by DCAE i.e. the ID      |
+|                                  |         |   used throughout the closed loop lifecycle to identify a request.   |
++----------------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| *nsInstanceId*                   | string  |   Set by Policy, using the                                           |
+|                                  |         |   "service-instance.service-instance-id" property                    |
+|                                  |         |   found within the enrichment data.                                  |
++----------------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
++----------------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| healVnfData:                     |         |                                                                      |
++----------------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| *cause*                          | string  |   Set by Policy to the name of the operation.                        |
++----------------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| *vnfInstanceId*                  | string  |   Set by Policy, using the                                           |
+|                                  |         |   "generic-vnf.vnf-id" property                                      |
+|                                  |         |   found within the enrichment data.                                  |
++----------------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
++----------------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| additionalParams:                |         |                                                                      |
++----------------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| *action*                         |         |   Set by Policy to the name of the operation.                        |
++----------------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
++----------------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| actionvminfo:                    |         |                                                                      |
++----------------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| *vmid*                           | string  |   Set by Policy, using the                                           |
+|                                  |         |   "vserver.vserver-id" property                                      |
+|                                  |         |   found within the enrichment data.                                  |
++----------------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| *vmname*                         | string  |   Set by Policy, using the                                           |
+|                                  |         |   "vserver.vserver-name" property                                    |
+|                                  |         |   found within the enrichment data.                                  |
++----------------------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+
+
+Examples
+########
+
+Suppose the *ControlLoopOperationParams* were populated as follows:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+        {
+            TBD
+        }
+
+An example of a request constructed by the actor using the above parameters, sent to the
+VFC REST server:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+        {
+            TBD
+        }
+
+An example response received to the initial request, from the VFC REST service:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+        {
+            TBD
+        }
+
+An example URL used for the "get" (i.e., poll) request subsequently sent to VFC:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+        TBD
+
+An example response received to the poll request, when VFC has not completed the request:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+        {
+            TBD
+        }
+
+An example response received to the poll request, when VFC has completed the request:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+        {
+            TBD
+        }
+
+
+Configuration of the VFC Actor
+###############################
+
+The following table specifies the fields that should be provided to configure the VFC
+actor.
+
+=============================== ====================    ==================================================================
+Field name                         type                             Description
+=============================== ====================    ==================================================================
+clientName                        string                  Name of the HTTP client to use to send the request to the
+                                                          VFC REST server.
+timeoutSec                        integer (optional)      Maximum time, in seconds, to wait for a response to be received
+                                                          from the REST server.  Defaults to 90s.
+=============================== ====================    ==================================================================
+
+The individual operations are configured using these same field names.  However, all
+of them are optional, as they inherit their values from the
+corresponding actor-level fields.  The following additional fields are specified at
+the individual operation level.
 
-This is a place-holder for the actor documentation.
+=============================== ====================    ===================================================================
+Field name                         type                             Description
+=============================== ====================    ===================================================================
+path                              string                  URI appended to the URL.  Note: this
+                                                          should not include a leading or trailing slash.
+maxGets                           integer (optional)      Maximum number of get/poll requests to make to determine the
+                                                          final outcome of the request.  Defaults to 0 (i.e., no polling).
+waitSecGet                        integer                 Time, in seconds, to wait between issuing "get" requests.
+                                                          Defaults to 20s.
+pathGet                           string                  Path to use when polling (i.e., issuing "get" requests).
+                                                          Note: this should include a trailing slash, but no leading
+                                                          slash.
+=============================== ====================    ===================================================================