On May 27, 2011, at 12:49 PM, Zubair Nabi 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?
Gotcha... disconsider my last email. Let's do it like that than.
>
> 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
> >
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