Hi Zubair,
That's a good way. I agree. :)
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Zubair Nabi <[email protected]>wrote:
> That's a very good point. In case of p2p agents we will only be sending
> messages using a standard send function. So, there is no way to tell the
> message type. We should add an int32 for message type considering that we
> have a standard number of messages.
> If int32 messageType == 1 then that could an authentication message and so
> on. What do you say?
>
>
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Zhongjie Wang <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>
>>
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> __
> Zubair
>
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