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Commit f33024a1 authored by Sudheer Shanka's avatar Sudheer Shanka
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Expand BlobStoreManager javadocs.

Bug: 143559646
Test: make -j offline-sdk-docs
Change-Id: Ia5c3f3143efdfd4c99fd184f63f481792ef2085c
parent 77861241
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@@ -37,11 +37,99 @@ import java.util.function.Consumer;
/**
 * This class provides access to the blob store managed by the system.
 *
 * Apps can publish data blobs which might be useful for other apps on the device to be
 * managed by the system and apps that would like to access these data blobs can do so
 * by addressing them via their cryptographically secure hashes.
 *
 * TODO: More documentation.
 * <p> Apps can publish and access a data blob using a {@link BlobHandle} object which can
 * be created with {@link BlobHandle#createWithSha256(byte[], CharSequence, long, String)}.
 * This {@link BlobHandle} object encapsulates the following pieces of information used for
 * identifying the blobs:
 * <ul>
 *     <li> {@link BlobHandle#getSha256Digest()}
 *     <li> {@link BlobHandle#getLabel()}
 *     <li> {@link BlobHandle#getExpiryTimeMillis()}
 *     <li> {@link BlobHandle#getTag()}
 * </ul>
 * For two {@link BlobHandle} objects to be considered identical, all these pieces of information
 * must be equal.
 *
 * <p> For contributing a new data blob, an app needs to create a session using
 * {@link BlobStoreManager#createSession(BlobHandle)} and then open this session for writing using
 * {@link BlobStoreManager#openSession(long)}.
 *
 * <p> The following code snippet shows how to create and open a session for writing:
 * <pre class="prettyprint">
 *     final long sessionId = blobStoreManager.createSession(blobHandle);
 *     try (BlobStoreManager.Session session = blobStoreManager.openSession(sessionId)) {
 *         try (ParcelFileDescriptor pfd = new ParcelFileDescriptor.AutoCloseOutputStream(
 *                 session.openWrite(offsetBytes, lengthBytes))) {
 *             writeData(pfd);
 *         }
 *     }
 * </pre>
 *
 * <p> If all the data could not be written in a single attempt, apps can close this session
 * and re-open it again using the session id obtained via
 * {@link BlobStoreManager#createSession(BlobHandle)}. Note that the session data is persisted
 * and can be re-opened for completing the data contribution, even across device reboots.
 *
 * <p> After the data is written to the session, it can be committed using
 * {@link Session#commit(Executor, Consumer)}. Until the session is committed, data written
 * to the session will not be shared with any app.
 *
 * <p class="note"> Once a session is committed using {@link Session#commit(Executor, Consumer)},
 * any data written as part of this session is sealed and cannot be modified anymore.
 *
 * <p> Before committing the session, apps can indicate which apps are allowed to access the
 * contributed data using one or more of the following access modes:
 * <ul>
 *     <li> {@link Session#allowPackageAccess(String, byte[])} which will allow whitelisting
 *          specific packages to access the blobs.
 *     <li> {@link Session#allowSameSignatureAccess()} which will allow only apps which are signed
 *          with the same certificate as the app which contributed the blob to access it.
 *     <li> {@link Session#allowPublicAccess()} which will allow any app on the device to access
 *          the blob.
 * </ul>
 *
 * <p> The following code snippet shows how to specify the access mode and commit the session:
 * <pre class="prettyprint">
 *     try (BlobStoreManager.Session session = blobStoreManager.openSession(sessionId)) {
 *         try (ParcelFileDescriptor pfd = new ParcelFileDescriptor.AutoCloseOutputStream(
 *                 session.openWrite(offsetBytes, lengthBytes))) {
 *             writeData(pfd);
 *         }
 *         session.allowSameSignatureAccess();
 *         session.allowPackageAccess(packageName, certificate);
 *         session.commit(executor, callback);
 *     }
 * </pre>
 *
 * <p> Apps that satisfy at least one of the access mode constraints specified by the publisher
 * of the data blob will be able to access it.
 *
 * <p> A data blob published without specifying any of
 * these access modes will be considered private and only the app that contributed the data
 * blob will be allowed to access it. This is still useful for overall device system health as
 * the System can try to keep one copy of data blob on disk when multiple apps contribute the
 * same data.
 *
 * <p class="note"> It is strongly recommended that apps use one of
 * {@link Session#allowPackageAccess(String, byte[])} or {@link Session#allowSameSignatureAccess()}
 * when they know, ahead of time, the set of apps they would like to share the blobs with.
 * {@link Session#allowPublicAccess()} is meant for publicly available data committed from
 * libraries and SDKs.
 *
 * <p> Once a data blob is committed with {@link Session#commit(Executor, Consumer)}, it
 * can be accessed using {@link BlobStoreManager#openBlob(BlobHandle)}, assuming the caller
 * satisfies constraints of any of the access modes associated with that data blob. An app may
 * acquire a lease on a blob with {@link BlobStoreManager#acquireLease(BlobHandle, int)} and
 * release the lease with {@link BlobStoreManager#releaseLease(BlobHandle)}. A blob will not be
 * deleted from the system while there is at least one app leasing it.
 *
 * <p> The following code snippet shows how to access the data blob:
 * <pre class="prettyprint">
 *     try (ParcelFileDescriptor pfd = new ParcelFileDescriptor.AutoCloseInputStream(
 *             blobStoreManager.openBlob(blobHandle)) {
 *         useData(pfd);
 *     }
 * </pre>
 */
@SystemService(Context.BLOB_STORE_SERVICE)
public class BlobStoreManager {