Sounds good. Let's keep it a string. The type would be the name.
Let's keep it optional. It will be used in p2p communication but not in
aggregator communication.
So this is the extra field that I propose:
optional string messageType = x;
Does everyone agree?
Adriano - Do we have write access to the common ICM repository?
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Zhongjie Wang <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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>>
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>> __
>> Zubair
>>
>
>
>
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>
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