.. Copyright 2014 Mirantis, Inc. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. .. _DynamicUISpec: =================================== Dynamic UI Definition specification =================================== The main purpose of Dynamic UI is to generate application creation forms "on-the-fly". Murano dashboard doesn't know anything about what applications can be deployed and which web form are needed to create application instance. So all application definitions should contain a yaml file which tells dashboard how to create an application and what validations are to be applied. This document will help you to compose a valid UI definition for your application. Structure ========= UI definition should be a valid yaml file and should contain the following sections (for version 2): * **Version** - points out to which syntax version is used, optional * **Templates** - optional, auxiliary section, used together with an Application section, optional * **Application** - object model description which will be used for application deployment, required * **Forms** - web form definitions, required Version ======= Version of supported dynamic UI syntax. The latest version is 2. This is optional section, default version is set to 1. Version mapping: Murano 0.4 - version 1 Murano 0.5 - version 2 Application and Templates ========================= In the Application section an *application object model* is described. This model will be translated into json and according to that json application will be deployed. Application section should contain all necessary keys that are required by murano-engine to deploy an application. Note that under *?* section goes system part of the model. You can pick parameters you got from the user (they should be described in the Forms section) and pick the right place where they should be set. To do this `YAQL `_ is used. All lines are going to be checked for a yaql expressions. Currently, 2 yaql functions are provided for object model generation: * **generateHostname** is used for machine hostname generation; it accepts 2 arguments: name pattern (string) and index (integer). If '#' symbol is present in name pattern, it will be replaced with the index provided. If pattern is not given, a random name will be generated. * **repeat** is used to produce a list of data snippets, given the template snippet (first argument) and number of times it should be reproduced (second argument). Inside that template snippet current step can be referenced as *$index*. Note that while evaluating YAQL expressions referenced from **Application** section (as well as almost all attributes inside **Forms** section, see later) *$* root object is set to the list of dictionaries with cleaned forms' data. So to obtain cleaned value of e.g. field *name* of form *appConfiguration* , you should reference it as *$.appConfiguration.name*. This context will be called as **standard context** throughout the text. *Example:* .. code-block:: yaml Templates: primaryController: ?: type: io.murano.windows.activeDirectory.PrimaryController host: ?: type: io.murano.windows.Host adminPassword: $.serviceConfiguration.adminPassword name: generateHostname($.serviceConfiguration.unitNamingPattern, 1) flavor: $.instanceConfiguration.flavor image: $.instanceConfiguration.osImage secondaryController: ?: type: io.murano.windows.activeDirectory.SecondaryController host: ?: type: io.murano.windows.Host adminPassword: $.serviceConfiguration.adminPassword name: generateHostname($.serviceConfiguration.unitNamingPattern, $index + 1) flavor: $.instanceConfiguration.flavor image: $.instanceConfiguration.osImage Application: ?: type: io.murano.windows.activeDirectory.ActiveDirectory name: $.serviceConfiguration.name primaryController: $primaryController secondaryControllers: repeat($secondaryController, $.serviceConfiguration.dcInstances - 1) Forms ===== This section describes markup elements for defining forms (which are currently rendered and validated with Django). Each form has name, field definitions (mandatory) and validator definitions (optionally). Note that each form is splitted into 2 parts - input area (left side, where all the controls are located) and description area (right side, where descriptions of the controls are located). Each field should contain: * **name** - system field name, could be any * **type** - system field type Currently supported options for **type** attribute are: * string - text field (no inherent validations) with one-line text input * boolean - boolean field, rendered as a checkbox * text - same as string, but with a multi-line input * integer - integer field with an appropriate validation, one-line text input * password - text field with validation for strong password, rendered as two masked text inputs (second one is for password confirmation) * clusterip - specific text field, used for entering cluster IP address (validations for valid IP address syntax and for that IP to belong to a fixed subnet) * floatingip - specific boolean field, used for specifying whether or not an instance should have floating IP; *DEPRECATED FIELD* - use boolean field instead * domain - specific field, used for selecting Active Directory domain from a list (or creating a new Active Directory application); *DEPRECATED FIELD* - use io.murano.windows.ActiveDirectory instead * databaselist - Specific field, a list of databases (comma-separated list of databases' names, where each name has the following syntax first symbol should be latin letter or underscore; subsequent symbols can be latin letter, numeric, underscore, at the sign, number sign or dollar sign), rendered as one-line text input * flavor - specific field, used for selection instance flavor from a list * keypair - specific field, used for selecting keypair from a list * image- specific field, used for selecting instance image from a list * azone - specific field, used for selecting instance availability zone from a list * any other value is considered to be a fully qualified name for some Application package and is rendered as a pair of controls: one for selecting already existing Applications of that type in an Environment, second - for creating a new Application of that type and selecting it Other arguments (and whether they are required or not) depends on field's type and other attributes values. Among the most common attributes are: * **label** - name, that will be displayed in the form; defaults to **name** being capitalized. * **description** - description, that will be displayed in the description area. Use yaml line folding character >- to keep the correct formatting during data transferring. * **descriptionTitle** - title of the description, defaults to **label**; displayed in the description area * **hidden** whether field should be visible or not in the input area. Note that hidden field's description will still be visible in the descriptions area (if given). Hidden fields are used storing some data to be used by other, visible fields. * **minLength**, **maxLength** (for string fields) and **minValue**, **maxValue** (for integer fields) are transparently translated into django validation properties. * **validators** is a list of dictionaries, each dictionary should at least have *expr* key, under that key either some `YAQL ` expression is stored, either one-element dictionary with *regexpValidator* key (and some regexp string as value). Another possible key of a validator dictionary is *message*, and although it is not required, it is highly desirable to specify it - otherwise, when validator fails (i.e. regexp doesn't match or YAQL expression evaluates to false) no message will be shown. Note that field-level validators use YAQL context different from all other attributes and section: here *$* root object is set to the value of field being validated (to make expressions shorter). * **widgetMedia** sets some custom *CSS* and *JavaScript* used for the field's widget rendering. Mostly they are used to do some client-side field enabling/disabling, hiding/unhiding etc. This is a temporary field which will be dropped once Version 3 of Dynamic UI is implemented (since it will transparently translate YAQL expressions into the appropriate *JavaScript*). Besides field-level validators form-level validators also exist. They use **standard context** for YAQL evaluation and are required when there is need to validate some form's constraint across several fields. *Example* .. code-block:: yaml Forms: - serviceConfiguration: fields: - name: name type: string label: Service Name description: >- To identify your service in logs please specify a service name - name: dcInstances type: integer hidden: true initial: 1 required: false maxLength: 15 helpText: Optional field for a machine hostname template - name: unitNamingPattern type: string label: Hostname template description: >- For your convenience all instance hostnames can be named in the same way. Enter a name and use # character for incrementation. For example, host# turns into host1, host2, etc. Please follow Windows hostname restrictions. required: false regexpValidator: '^(([a-zA-Z0-9#][a-zA-Z0-9-#]*[a-zA-Z0-9#])\.)*([A-Za-z0-9#]|[A-Za-z0-9#][A-Za-z0-9-#]*[A-Za-z0-9#])$' # FIXME: does not work for # turning into 2-digit numbers maxLength: 15 helpText: Optional field for a machine hostname template # temporaryHack widgetMedia: js: ['muranodashboard/js/support_placeholder.js'] css: {all: ['muranodashboard/css/support_placeholder.css']} validators: # if unitNamingPattern is given and dcInstances > 1, then '#' should occur in unitNamingPattern - expr: $.serviceConfiguration.dcInstances < 2 or not $.serviceConfiguration.unitNamingPattern.bool() or '#' in$.serviceConfiguration.unitNamingPattern message: Incrementation symbol "#" is required in the Hostname template - instanceConfiguration: fields: - name: title type: string required: false hidden: true descriptionTitle: Instance Configuration description: Specify some instance parameters on which service would be created. - name: flavor type: flavor label: Instance flavor description: >- Select registered in Openstack flavor. Consider that service performance depends on this parameter. required: false - name: osImage type: image imageType: windows label: Instance image description: >- Select valid image for a service. Image should already be prepared and registered in glance. - name: availabilityZone type: azone label: Availability zone description: Select availability zone where service would be installed. required: false Full example with Active Directory application form definitions is available here :ref:`UI Definition Of AD App `