UI2 Sample application

This application, created from the ONOS UI2 archetype can be deployed in 2 ways

• As a [standalone application](#Standalone Application outside of ONOS) outside of ONOS OR
• As an [application embedded](#Application embedded within ONOS) within ONOS

There are 2 main parts to it:

• An ONOS OSGi Java bundle that is packaged as an ONOS OAR file, and can be deployed in to a running ONOS system
• A JavaScript library that may be embedded within an Angular Web project

${symbol_h2} Standalone Application outside of ONOS In the standalone scenario this library can continue to be built with Maven like:

• mvn clean install

The app/BUILD.rename and web/roadm/BUILD.rename files can be discarded or ignored because they are only for building with Bazel.

The ONOS OAR application may be installed with

onos-app localhost install! app/target/roadm-app-1.0-SNAPSHOT.oar

The JavaScript GUI library roadm-gui-lib-1.0.0.tgz may be included in a new Angular Project by adding the line:

"roadm-gui-lib": "file:../roadm/web/roadm-gui/roadm-gui-lib-1.0.0.tgz"

(ensuring the path is correct) to the dependencies section of the package.json of the new Angular application.

Then in the main folder of the new Angular app run

npm install roadm-gui-lib gui2-fw-lib d3

Add to routing

Finally to use the roadm-gui-lib in your new Angular application, add it to the Angular Router and make a link to it

• Add a route to it the new app in the file src/app/app-routing.module.ts add the following to the "routes" array:

  {
    path: 'roadm-gui',
    loadChildren: 'roadm-gui-lib#RoadmGuiLibModule'
  }

and

 import { RoadmGuiLibModule } from 'roadm-gui-lib';

in the imports section at the top of the same file.

• Add a link to the Library in new Application's main page at src/app/app.component.html as <a routerLink="/roadm-gui" routerLinkActive="active">roadm page</a> before <router-outlet>

Add gui2-fw-lib to module

• In the Angular app's main module src/app/app.module.ts add to the providers section:

  providers: [
    { provide: LogService, useClass: ConsoleLoggerService },
    { provide: 'Window', useValue: window }
  ],

and to the imports section:

    Gui2FwLibModule

and to the import section:

import { Gui2FwLibModule, ConsoleLoggerService, LogService } from 'gui2-fw-lib';

Deploy

At this stage you should be able to build the new application:

ng build --prod

and then copy the files to the html folder of an Apache or Nginx web server

cp -r dist/<your-app-name>/* /var/www/html

And you should be able to open it in your browser at http://localhost

${symbol_h2} Application embedded within ONOS To embed the application inside ONOS (permanently add it to the ONOS code base) move the application folder in to the ~/onos/apps directory (ensuring its name does not clash with anything already there).

Run

cd ~/onos/apps/roadm && \
    mvn -pl web/roadm-gui install && \
    mvn -pl web/roadm-gui clean

once inside the folder - this is the easiest way to fetch the dependent node modules for the Angular application.

To ensure it gets built along with ONOS rename the files BUILD.rename, app/BUILD.rename and web/roadm/BUILD.rename to BUILD, and remove the pom.xml files, and some extra files left over from the build.

cd ~/onos/apps/roadm && \
mv BUILD.rename BUILD && \
mv app/BUILD.rename app/BUILD && \
mv web/roadm-gui/BUILD.rename web/roadm-gui/BUILD && \
rm pom.xml && \
rm app/pom.xml && \
rm web/roadm-gui/pom.xml && \
mv web/roadm-gui/gitignore web/roadm-gui/.gitignore && \
chmod +x web/roadm-gui/ng-test.sh && \
rm -rf web/roadm-gui/node_modules/rxjs/src

In the file

• ~/onos/apps/roadm/web/roadm-gui/projects/roadm-gui-lib/package.json change the version to be the current version of ONOS e.g. 2.2.0

Add a reference to the app in ~/onos/tools/build/bazel/modules.bzl at the end of the ONOS_APPS section as:

"//apps/roadm:onos-apps-roadm-oar",

In the file ~/onos/web/gui2/BUILD in the genrule section _onos-gui2-ng-build add to the srcs section:

"//apps/roadm/web/roadm-gui:roadm-gui-lib-build",

and in the cmd section of the same genrule add the following 3 lines (just before the comment "# End of add in modules from external packages"):

" ROADM_GUI_LIB_FILES=($(locations //apps/roadm/web/roadm-gui:roadm-gui-lib-build)) &&" +  # An array of filenames - sorted by time created
" tar xf $$ROOT/$${ROADM_GUI_LIB_FILES[0]} &&" +
" mv package/ node_modules/roadm-gui-lib/ &&" +

Add to routing

Finally to use the roadm-gui-lib in the ONOS GUI, add it to the Angular Router

• Add it as a route to ~/onos/web/gui2/src/main/webapp/app/onos-routing.module.ts in the "routes" array as:

  {
    path: 'roadm-gui',
    loadChildren: 'roadm-gui-lib#RoadmGuiLibModule'
  },

and in the imports section at the top of the same file

 import { RoadmGuiLibModule } from 'roadm-gui-lib';

Run the build

Run Bazel build with

cd ~/onos && \
ob

or equivalent.

Run the application

Start ONOS in the normal way.

Using the ONOS command line, activate the application:

app activate roadm

To turn on ONOS Server side logging, from the same ONOS CLI use:

log:set DEBUG ${package}
log:set DEBUG org.onosproject.ui.impl

On the ONOS GUI the navigation menu should show the new application link. Clicking on it will navigate to the new app (there is a system of lazy-loading implemented here so that applications are not loaded until they are first used).

Rebuild

To rebuild and run the web side of the application do:

bazel build //web/gui2:onos-web-gui2-oar && \
    onos-app localhost reinstall! bazel-bin/web/gui2/onos-web-gui2-oar.oar

To rebuild and run the server side of the application do:

bazel build //apps/roadm:onos-apps-roadm-oar && \
    onos-app localhost reinstall! bazel-bin/apps/roadm/onos-apps-roadm-oar.oar

App structure

The application demonstrates some major concepts:

• The use of Angular 7 concepts like Modules, Components, Service

• The top level component - contains the "Fetch Data" button and the connection to the server backend through a WebSocket

• Passing a number in the request

• Receiving a JSON object in reply

• Reuse of items from the gui2-fw-lib - with LogService, WebSocketService and IconComponent

• The use of a child component (WelcomeComponent) in 3 different ways

  • The passing of Inputs to this component
  • The passing of an Event out when the component is clicked

• The embedding of SVG content in to the web page

• The use of TypeScript (as opposed to JavaScript or ECMAScript directly) to ensure type safety