AMI Custom Java Plugins

Overview

AMI is an extendable platform such that java plugins can be integrated at various touch points throughout the product. There are various types of plugins, each for supporting a particular purpose. Regardless of type, there are certain guidelines to follow when embedding a plugin into AMI:

1. Write a Java class which implements the appropriate interface.

• The various interfaces are discussed in the following sections.
• Each plugin should have a universally unique ID, returned by getPluginId()
• Many plugins operate as "factories" which create instances of class. For example, the Datasource Plugin creates Datasource Adapters on demand
• The compiled class(es) must be added to the classpath. This is most easily done by bundling them into a jar and placing the jar in the lib directory. All jars in the lib directory are automatically added to the class path

2. Add the fully qualified Java class name to the appropriate property.

• The name of the property coincides with the type of plugin
• Defaults for a given plugin type are found in the config/defaults.properties file. You should override the property in the config/local.properties file).

In all cases, the plugins indirectly implement the AmiPlugin interface. Plugins are instantiated and initialized during startup, such that the failure of a plugin to startup will cause AMI to hard fail on startup. The exact reason for failure can be found in the log files.

Interfacing with Directory Naming Service (AMI One, Center)

Overview

In Enterprise environments, some services cannot be directly identified by a physical destination (ex: host name) and are instead logically identified. In this situation, the organization implements a directory naming service that can map, in realtime, the logical identifier to a physical destination. For AMI to access resources in this scenario, a plugin must be written that interfaces with the directory naming service. Then, when a resource is requested inside AMI, AMI will first ask the Plugin to "resolve" the logical name to a physical one, passing the resolved physical one to the underlying connectors. It's the plugin's responsibility to connect to the naming service and provide an answer in a timely fashion.

Using Multiple Resolvers

Note, that many resolvers can be supplied. The order in which they are defined in the property is the order in which they are visited. Once a resolver plugin says it "canResolve" the identifier, the remaining resolvers are not called.

Default case

If no resolvers plugins are provided, or none of the resolvers "canResolve(...)" a given identifier, then the identifier is considered a physical identifier and passed straight to the connector.

Java interface (see javadoc for details)

com.f1.ami.amicommon.AmiNamingServiceResolver

Property name

ami.naming.service.resolvers=comma_delimited_list_of_fully_qualified_java_class_names

Interfacing with Single Sign on and Entitlements (AMI One, Center, Web)

Overview

When a user attempts to access AMI, first it's necessary to validate the user should be granted access, through a valid user name and password. If the user should be granted, then certain attributes may need to be associated with the user that AMI can use to dictate fine-grained access. There are two different entry points into AMI, each of which can have their own instance of an authentication adapter:

• Frontend Web Interface - When accessing AMI through a browser, first the user must supply a user name and password via the html login page (see property name for front end web access)
• Backend Command line interface - When accessing AMI's in-memory database using the command line interface, first the user must execute the login command, which in turn calls an instance of this plugin (see property name for backend command line access)

AMI Predefined Attributes

• ISADMIN - if true, the user will be logged into the website with admin rights
• ISDEV - if true, the user will be logged into the website with developer rights
• DEFAULT_LAYOUT - if set, this will be the default layout loaded on login
• LAYOUTS - a comma delimited list of regular expressions for layouts that are available
• amivar_some_varname - a variable named user.some_varname of type string is added to the user's session. This has been deprecated, use amiscript.variable.
• amiscript.variable.some_varname - a variable named varname of the supplied type is added to the user's session
• AMIDB_PERMISSIONS - a comma delimieted combination of READ,WRITE,ALTER and EXECUTE which controls permissions for the user when logging in via jdbc or db command line

Java interface (see javadoc for details)

com.f1.ami.web.auth.AmiAuthenticator

Property name for front end web access

ami.auth.plugin.class=fully_qualified_class_name

Property name for backend command line access

ami.db.auth.plugin.class=fully_qualified_class_name

Example - Java Code

package com.demo; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.List; importcom.f1.container.ContainerTools; importcom.f1.utils.PropertyController; public class TestAuthenticator implements AmiAuthenticator {

      @Override
      public void init(ContainerTools tools, PropertyController props) {
              // TODO Auto-generated method stub
      }
      @Override
      public AmiAuthResponse authenticate(String namespace, String location, String user, String password) {
              final List<AmiAuthAttribute> attributes = new ArrayList<AmiAuthAttribute>();
              attributes.add(new BasicAmiAttribute("ISDEV", "true"));
              attributes.add(new BasicAmiAttribute("ISADMIN", "true"));
              attributes.add(new BasicAmiAttribute("ami_layout_shared", "default_layout.ami"));
              return new BasicAmiAuthResponse(AmiAuthResponse.STATUS_OKAY, null, new BasicAmiAuthUser(user, "Jackie", "Davenson", "777-888-9999", "jDavenson@mail.com", "Tire Co.", attributes));
      }
      @Override
      public String getPluginId() {
              return "TestAuthenticator";
      }

}

Example - Configuration

ami.auth.plugin.class=com.demo.TestAuthenticatorPlugin

Connections to Custom External Datasources (AMI One, Center)

Overview

Connecting to external datasources or systems for accessing and uploading data is at the core of what AMI does. There are dozens of adapters out of the box for well known databases, file formats, etc. Large organizations that have custom databases/storage systems can access them in AMI by implementing a datasource plugin.

Each datasource can optionally support the following functionality:

• Providing a list of available tables
• Providing for a sample of data for a given table
• Running a query (Downloading data into AMI)
• Uploading data from AMI into the datasource

Java interface (see javadoc for details)  

com.f1.ami.amicommon.AmiDatasourcePlugin

com.f1.ami.amicommon.AmiDatasourceAdapter

Property name for front end web access

ami.datasource.plugins=comma_delimited_list_of_fully_qualified_java_class_names

Example Java Code

  1package com.demo;
  2
  3import java.util.HashMap;
  4import java.util.Map;
  5
  6importcom.f1.ami.amicommon.AmiDatasourceAdapter;
  7importcom.f1.ami.amicommon.AmiDatasourcePlugin;
  8importcom.f1.container.ContainerTools;
  9importcom.f1.utils.PropertyController;
 10
 11public class TestDatasourcePlugin implements AmiDatasourcePlugin {
 12       private static final Map<String, Object> OPERATORS_MAP = new HashMap<String, Object>();
 13       private static final Map<String, Object> WHERE_SYNTAX_MAP = new HashMap<String, Object>();
 14       private static final Map<String, Object> HELP_MAP = new HashMap<String, Object>();
 15       static {
 16               OPERATORS_MAP.put("eq", "=");
 17               OPERATORS_MAP.put("ne", "!=");
 18               OPERATORS_MAP.put("lt", "<");
 19               OPERATORS_MAP.put("gte", ">=");
 20               WHERE_SYNTAX_MAP.put("prefix", "((");
 21               WHERE_SYNTAX_MAP.put("suffix", "))");
 22               WHERE_SYNTAX_MAP.put("join", ") or (");
 23               WHERE_SYNTAX_MAP.put("true", "true");
 24       }
 25
 26       @Override
 27       public void init(ContainerTools tools, PropertyController props) {
 28       }
 29
 30       @Override
 31       public String getPluginId() {
 32               return "TestDatasource";
 33       }
 34
 35       @Override
 36       public String getDatasourceDescription() {
 37               return "Test";
 38       }
 39
 40       @Override
 41       public AmiDatasourceAdapter createDatasourceAdapter() {
 42               return new TestDatasourceAdapter();
 43       }
 44
 45       @Override
 46       public String getDatasourceIcon() {
 47               return "../../../../resources/test.PNG";
 48       }
 49
 50       @Override
 51       public String getDatasourceQuoteType() {
 52               return "\"";
 53       }
 54
 55       @Override
 56       public Map<String, Object> getDatasourceOperators() {
 57               return OPERATORS_MAP;
 58       }
 59
 60       @Override
 61       public Map<String, Object> getDatasourceWhereClauseSyntax() {
 62               return WHERE_SYNTAX_MAP;
 63       }
 64
 65       @Override
 66       public Map<String, Object> getDatasourceHelp() {
 67               return HELP_MAP;
 68       }
 69}
 70
 71package com.demo;
 72
 73import java.util.ArrayList;
 74import java.util.List;
 75
 76importcom.f1.ami.amicommon.AmiDatasourceAdapter;
 77importcom.f1.ami.amicommon.AmiDatasourceException;
 78import com.f1.ami.amicommon.AmiDatasourceTracker;
 79import com.f1.ami.amicommon.AmiServiceLocator;
 80import com.f1.ami.amicommon.msg.AmiCenterQuery;
 81import com.f1.ami.amicommon.msg.AmiCenterQueryResult;
 82import com.f1.ami.amicommon.msg.AmiCenterUpload;
 83import com.f1.ami.amicommon.msg.AmiDatasourceTable;
 84import com.f1.base.Columns;
 85import com.f1.base.Row;
 86importcom.f1.container.ContainerTools;
 87importcom.f1.utils.structs.table.BasicTable;
 88
 89public class TestDatasourceAdapter implements AmiDatasourceAdapter {
 90       private ContainerTools tools;
 91       private AmiServiceLocator serviceLocator;
 92
 93       @Override
 94       public void init(ContainerTools tools, AmiServiceLocator serviceLocator) throwsAmiDatasourceException {
 95               this.tools = tools;
 96               this.serviceLocator = serviceLocator;
 97       }
 98
 99       @Override
100       publicList<AmiDatasourceTable> getTables(AmiDatasourceTracker debugSink) throwsAmiDatasourceException {
101               List<AmiDatasourceTable> tables = newArrayList<AmiDatasourceTable>();
102               AmiDatasourceTable table = tools.nw(AmiDatasourceTable.class);
103               table.setCollectionName("master");
104               table.setName("accounts");
105               table.setCustomQuery("SELECT * FROM accounts WHERE ${WHERE}");
106               tables.add(table);
107               return tables;
108       }
109
110       @Override
111       publicList<AmiDatasourceTable> getPreviewData(List<AmiDatasourceTable> tables, int previewCount, AmiDatasourceTracker debugSink) throwsAmiDatasourceException {
112               for (int i = 0; i < tables.size(); i++) {
113                       AmiDatasourceTable table = tables.get(i);
114                       AmiCenterQuery q = tools.nw(AmiCenterQuery.class);
115                       q.setQuery(table.getCustomQuery());
116                       q.setLimit(previewCount);
117                       AmiCenterQueryResult rs = tools.nw(AmiCenterQueryResult.class);
118                       processQuery(q, rs, debugSink);
119                       List<Columns> results = rs.getTables();
120                       if (results.size() > 0)
121                               table.setPreviewData(results.get(i));
122               }
123               return tables;
124       }
125
126       @Override
127       public AmiServiceLocator getServiceLocator() {
128               return serviceLocator;
129       }
130
131       @Override
132       public void processQuery(AmiCenterQuery query, AmiCenterQueryResult resultSink, AmiDatasourceTracker debugSink) throws AmiDatasourceException {
133               String queryStatement = query.getQuery();
134               // Do something with query statement
135               List<Columns> result = newArrayList<Columns>();
136               BasicTable table = new BasicTable();
137               String id = "id";
138               String reputation = "reputation";
139               String isPaid = "isPaid";
140               table.addColumn(String.class, id);
141               table.addColumn(Integer.class, reputation);
142               bt.addColumn(Boolean.class, isPaid);
143               Row row = bt.newRow("superman123", 150, true);
144               bt.getRows().add(row);
145               Row row2 = bt.newRow("trucker66", 400, true);
146               bt.getRows().add(row2);
147               resultSink.setTables(result);
148       }
149
150       @Override
151       public boolean cancelQuery() {
152               return false;
153       }
154
155       @Override
156       public void processUpload(AmiCenterUpload upload, AmiCenterQueryResult resultsSink, AmiDatasourceTracker tracker) throwsAmiDatasourceException {
157               throw newAmiDatasourceException(AmiDatasourceException.UNSUPPORTED_OPERATION_ERROR, "Upload to datasource");
158       }
159}

Example - Configuration

ami.datasource.plugins=com.demo.TestDatasourcePlugin