Reference Guide
Table Of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Establishing Your Test and Development Environments
- 3 Developing Applications
- Introduction
- Authentication
- REST API
- Audit Logging
- Alert Logging
- Configuration
- High Availability
- OpenFlow
- Metrics Framework
- GUI
- SKI Framework - Overview
- SKI Framework - Navigation Tree
- SKI Framework - Hash Navigation
- SKI Framework - View Life-Cycle
- SKI Framework - Live Reference Application
- UI Extension
- Introduction
- Controller Teaming
- Distributed Coordination Service
- Persistence
- Backup and Restore
- Device Driver Framework
- 4 Application Security
- 5 Including Debian Packages with Applications
- 6 Sample Application
- Application Description
- Creating Application Development Workspace
- Application Generator (Automatic Workspace Creation)
- Creating Eclipse Projects
- Updating Project Dependencies
- Building the Application
- Installing the Application
- Application Code
- 7 Testing Applications
- 8 Built-In Applications
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Bibliography
Figure 58 Sample Application GUI Entry
Figure 59 Sample Application View
GUI-Specific REST API
As seen previously the SKI framework uses JavaScript [40] as the underlying technology to create
Dynamic-HTML based views. Such dynamism comes from logic executed at the SDN Controller or
WEB server from the JavaScript point of view. The SKI framework integrates the jQuery [42] tool
which allows for the execution of asynchronous HTTP requests. jQuery encapsulates AJAX [43] to
achieve asynchronous calls: AJAX is the art of exchanging data with a server, and updating parts
of a web page, without reloading the whole page.
Use jQuery to connect to the server to retrieve information via HTTP request and HTTP responses.
RESTful web services [2] [1] was inspired by HTTP; as a result, REST can be used wherever HTTP
can. A RESTful web API (also called a RESTful web service) is a web API implemented using HTTP
and REST principles. Thus, use REST APIs to attend requests coming from the user interface.
The sample application already contains a module (hm-rs) for the RESTful Web Services that
expose to the outside world functionality provided by the sample application; however this
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