Adds FAQ content to the Murano docs
This patch adds FAQ to the Developing Applications section. Co-Authored-By: Ekaterina Chernova <efedorova@mirantis.com> Co-Authored-By: Olena Logvinova <ologvinova@mirantis.com> Change-Id: I019cbe6ed14fc4e8db02b7643cdf57e320d75167
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FAQs
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FAQ
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**There are too many files in Murano package, why not to use a single
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Heat Template?**
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To install a simple Apache service to a new VM, Heat Template is
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definitely simpler. But the Apache service is useless without its
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applications running under it. Thus, a new Heat Template is necessary
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for every application that you want to run with Apache. In Murano,
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you can compose a result software to install it on a VM on-the-fly:
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it is possible to select an application that can run under Apache
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dynamically. Or you can set a VM where Apache is installed as a
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parameter. This way, the files in the application package allow
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to compose compound applications with multiple configuration options.
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For any single combination you need a separate Heat Template.
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**The Application section is defined in the UI form. Can I remove it?**
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No. The ``Application`` section is a template for Murano object model
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which is the instruction that helps you to understand the
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environment structure that you deploy. While filling the forms that
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are auto-generated from the UI.yaml file, object model is
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updated with the values entered by the user. Eventually, the Murano
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engine receives the resulted object model (.json file) after the
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environment is sent to the deploy.
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**The Templates section is defined in the UI form. What's the purpose?**
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Sometimes, the user needs to create several instances with the same
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configuration. A template defined by a variable in the
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``Templates`` section is multiplied by the value of the number of
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instances that are set by the user. A YAQL ``repeat`` function is
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used for this operation.
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**Some properties have Usage, others do not. What does this affect?**
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``Usage`` indicates how a particular property is used. The default
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value is ``In``, so sometimes it is omitted. The ``Out`` property
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indicates that it is not set from outside, but is calculated in
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the class methods and is available for the ``read`` operation from
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other classes. If you don’t want to initialize in the class
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constructor, and the property has no default value, you specify
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``Out`` in the ``Usage``.
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**Can I use multiple inheritance in my classes?**
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Yes. You can specify a list of parent classes instead of a single
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string in the regular YAML notation. The list with one element is
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also acceptable.
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**There are FullName and Name properties in the manifest file. What’s
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the difference between them?**
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``Name`` is displayed in the web UI catalog, and ``FullName`` is a
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system name used by the engine to get the class definition and
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resolve the class interconnections.
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**How does Murano know which class is the main one?**
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There is no ``main`` class term in the MuranoPL. Everything depends
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on a particular object model and an instance class representing the
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instance. Usually, an entry-point class has exactly the same name
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as the package FullName, and it uses other classes.
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**What is the difference between $variable and $.variable in the class
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definitions?**
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By default, ``$`` represents a current object (similar to ``self``
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in Python or ``this`` in C++/Java/C#), so ``$.variable`` accesses
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the object field/property. In contrast, ``$variable`` (without a dot)
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means a local method variable. Note that ``$`` can change its value
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during execution of some YAQL functions like select, where it means
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a current value. A more safe form is to use a reserved variable
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``$this`` instead of ``$``. ``$this.variable`` always refers to an
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object-level value in any context.
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