Hi Adriano,
Sorry, I didn't see the email of that doc. Then it's perfect. :)
There's one more question, how to detect the message type when I receive a
message?
Is there any field to indicate the type?
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Adriano Monteiro Marques <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> On May 27, 2011, at 12:30 PM, Zhongjie Wang wrote:
>
> > Hi Zubair, Diogo:
> > I hope you guys could join and figure out the detailed message format
> for the communication interfaces. :)
> > In the spec, we have decided to use RESTful webservice and RPC call for
> the communications. Now the
> > form of RPC call is somewhat obscure, we need to make a clearly defined
> message format. Do you think we
> > should still use protobuf, or json/xml, or customized binary/text format?
> This is important.
>
> We've already decided on using protobuf, right? Event the ones we defined
> today and shared with you in that google doc.
>
> > At first, there should be an authentication process after connected.
> Then we use the negotiated
> > symmetric key to encrypt the following messages. The messages will be in
> pair, like Request/Response.
> > For a request, there should be a RPC function name and then the
> parameters, finally maybe end with a checksum.
> > And for a response, it will indicate which request it response to, and
> then the result.
> > If we use protobuf, then we need to put the function name out of the
> message. So after the agent read the name,
> > it will generate a proper class for the message.
> >
> > How do you think which one we should choose?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > --
> > Zhongjie Wang
> > Master Candidate
> > Computer System Architecture
> > Peking University, China
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