Hi Alan,
Actually, the common .proto that Adriano just shared addresses all your
concerns. Can you please go through it and then we can decide if anything
needs to be added/subtracted. We will also be using the same messages for
p2p communication as well.
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Zhongjie Wang <[email protected]> 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.
> 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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