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A copy of the license is included in the section entitled * Protocol:: The @command{mds} procotol. * Utilities:: About @command{mds} utilities. * Servers:: About @command{mds} servers. +* Protocols:: @command{mds} procotols. * libmdsserver:: Overview of @command{libmdsserver}. * mds-base:: Overview of @command{mds-base}. * GNU Free Documentation License:: Copying and sharing this manual. @@ -1714,6 +1715,227 @@ simple, reference implementation of a, status icon tray. +@node Protocols +@chapter Protocols + +@menu +* Infrastructure protocols:: Infrastructure protocols. +@end menu + + + +@node Infrastructure protocols +@section Infrastructure protocols + +@menu +* assign-id:: Assign new ID to client, or fetch current ID. +* intercept:: Sign up for reception of message. +* register:: Register availability of a command for which you implement a service. +* reregister:: Request for reregistration for available commands. +* error:: Notify a client about a request failure. +@end menu + + + +@node assign-id +@subsection assign-id + +@table @asis +@item Identifying header: +@code{Command: assign-id} + +@item Action: +Assign new ID to client, or fetch current ID. + +@item Purpose: +Assigning ID to clients so server can respond to that client. + +@item Compulsivity: +Manditory, part of the core infrastructure. + +@item Reference implementation: +@command{mds-server} +@end table + + + +@node intercept +@subsection intercept + +@table @asis +@item Identifying header: +@code{Command: intercept} + +@item Action: +Sign up for reception of message. + +@item Optional header: @code{Stop} +Stop reception of messages if the value for +the header @code{Stop} is @code{yes}. + +@item Optional header: @code{Priority} +Signed 64-bit integer of reception priority +(reversed of order). + +@item Optional header: @code{Modifying} +Send message asynchronously and await +modification if the value for the header +@code{Modifying} is @code{yes}. + +@item Optional header: @code{Length} +Length of the message. + +@item Message: +List of headers and header--value-pairs that +qualifies a message for reception, all messages +qualifies if this list is empty. + +@item Purpose: +Filter received message for clients and servers. + +@item Purpose: +Assigned interception order for modification of messages. + +@item Compulsivity: +Manditory, part of the core infrastructure. + +@item Reference implementation: +@command{mds-server} +@end table + + + +@node register +@subsection register + +@table @asis +@item Identifying header: +@code{Command: register} + +@item Action: +Register availability of a command for which you implement a service. + +@item Required header: @code{Client ID} +Your ID, provided by the @code{ID assignment} header +in response to a @code{Command: assign-id} header. + +@item Conditionally required header: @code{Length} +Length of the message. +Required if @code{Action: list} is included in the headers. + +@item Optional header: @code{Action} +@table @code +@item remove +Remove availability from registry if the value +of the header @code{Action} is @code{remove}. +@item wait +Wait until listed commands are available if the +value of the header @code{Action} is @code{wait}. +However if a protocol becomes unavailable during this +wait period it will still be counted as available for +this wait action. +@item list +Send a list of availability commands if the value +of the header @code{Action} is @code{list}. +@end table + +@item Conditionally optional header: @code{Time to live} +The maximum number of seconds to wait. +Available and optional if @code{Action: wait} +is included in the headers. + +@item Message: +List of values for the header @code{Command} +that you implement. + +@item Purpose: +Identify supported display server operations. + +@item Purpose: +Initialisation process synchronisation. + +@item Compulsivity: +Highly recommended, programs may stall a bit from +time to time without it, or at initialisation +depending on the program's implementation. + +@item Reference implementation: +@command{mds-registry} +@end table + + + +@node reregister +@subsection reregister + +@table @asis +@item Identifying header: +@code{Command: reregister} + +@item Action: +Request that all servers resends @code{Command: register} +with either @code{Action: add} or without the @code{Action} +header (does the same thing.) + +@item Purpose: +Rebuild registry created with @code{Command: register} +if the registry server crashes. + +@item Compulsivity: +Highly recommended, programs may think a protocol is not +supported of the registry server crashes if you do not +implement this in your server. + +@item Reference implementation: +@command{mds-registry} and most servers. +@end table + + + +@node error +@subsection error + +@table @asis +@item Identifying header: +@code{Command: error} + +@item Action: +Notify a client about a request failure. + +@item Required header: @code{To} +The ID of the client that send a request that failed. + +@item Required header: @code{In response to} +The ID of the message whose request failed. + +@item Required header: @code{Error} +The errno number of the error, 0 on success if the +message was not an information query. The string +``custom'' can be used if there is not errno number, +optionally followed by a blank space and a number +that identifies the error, this number must be +positive (not zero). + +@item Conditionally optional header: @code{Length} +The length of the message. +Available and optional if ``custom'' is used in +the header @code{Error}. + +@item Message: +Description of the error, single line, mid-sentence case, +no punctuation in the end, must not be question but rather +it must be a statement. + +@item Purpose: +Enable keyboard layout servers to automatically set active +locks when the server starts based on currently active LED:s. + +@item Compulsivity: +Optional. +@end table + + + @node libmdsserver @chapter libmdsserver |