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20 RMr -- Ric Message Router Library
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25 RMr is a library which provides a user application with the
26 ability to send and receive messages to/from other RMr based
27 applications without having to understand the underlying
28 messaging transport environment (e.g. Nanomsg) and without
29 needing to know which other endpoint applications are
30 currently available and accepting messages. To do this, RMr
31 depends on a routing table generated by an external source.
32 This table is used to determine the destination endpoint of
33 each message sent by mapping the message type T (supplied by
34 the user application) to an endpoint entry. Once determined,
35 the message is sent directly to the endpoint. The user
36 application is unaware of which endpoint actually receives
37 the message, and in some cases whether that message was sent
38 to multiple applications.
40 RMr functions do provide for the ability to respond to the
41 specific source instance of a message allowing for either a
42 request response, or call response relationship when needed.
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47 The library is supplied with a route table which maps message
48 numbers to endpoint groups such that each time a message of
49 type T is sent, the message is delivered to one member of
50 each group associated with T. For example, message type 2
51 might route to two different groups where group A consists of
52 worker1 and worker2, while group B consists only of logger1.
54 It is the responsibility of the route table generator to know
55 which endpoints belong to which groups, and which groups
56 accept which message types. Once understood, the route table
57 generator publishes a table that is ingested by RMr and used
58 for mapping messages to end points.
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63 To enable configuration of the library behaviour outside of
64 direct user application control, RMr supports a number of
65 environment variables which provide information to the
66 library. The following is a list of the various environment
67 variables, what they control and the defaults which RMr uses
73 Allows the asynch connection mode to be turned off (by
74 setting the value to 0. When set to 1, or missing from the
75 environment, RMR will invoke the connection interface in
76 the transport mechanism using the non-blocking (asynch)
77 mode. This will likely result in many "soft failures"
78 (retry) until the connection is established, but allows
79 the application to continue unimpeeded should the
80 connection be slow to set up.
84 This provides the interface that RMr will bind listen
85 ports to allowing for a single interface to be used rather
86 than listening across all interfaces. This should be the
87 IP address assigned to the interface that RMr should
88 listen on, and if not defined RMr will listen on all
93 RMr opens a TCP listen socket using the port defined by
94 this environment variable and expects that the route table
95 generator process will connect to this port. If not
96 supplied the port 4561 is used.
100 Is set to 1 if the route table generator is sending
101 "plain" messages (not using RMr to send messages, 0 if the
102 rtg is using RMr to send. The default is 1 as we don't
103 expect the rtg to use RMr.
107 This is used to supply a static route table which can be
108 used for debugging, testing, or if no route table
109 generator process is being used to supply the route table.
110 If not defined, no static table is used and RMr will not
111 report *ready* until a table is received.
115 This is either the name or IP address which is placed into
116 outbound messages as the message source. This will used
117 when an RMR based application uses the rmr_rts_msg()
118 function to return a response to the sender. If not
119 supplied RMR will use the hostname which in some container
120 environments might not be routable.
124 This supplies the name of a verbosity control file. The
125 core RMR functions do not produce messages unless there is
126 a critical failure. However, the route table collection
127 thread, not a part of the main message processing
128 component, can write additional messages to standard
129 error. If this variable is set, RMR will extract the
130 verbosity level for these messages (0 is silent) from the
131 first line of the file. Changes to the file are detected
132 and thus the level can be changed dynamically, however RMR
133 will only suss out this variable during initialisation, so
134 it is impossible to enable verbosity after startup.
138 If set to 1, RMR will write some warnings which are
139 non-performance impacting. If the variable is not defined,
140 or set to 0, RMR will not write these additional warnings.
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146 rmr_alloc_msg(3), rmr_tralloc_msg(3), rmr_call(3),
147 rmr_free_msg(3), rmr_init(3), rmr_init_trace(3),
148 rmr_get_meid(3), rmr_get_src(3), rmr_get_srcip(3),
149 rmr_get_trace(3), rmr_get_trlen(3), rmr_get_xact(3),
150 rmr_payload_size(3), rmr_rcv_msg(3), rmr_rcv_specific(3),
151 rmr_rts_msg(3), rmr_ready(3), rmr_fib(3), rmr_has_str(3),
152 rmr_tokenise(3), rmr_mk_ring(3), rmr_realloc_payload(3),
153 rmr_ring_free(3), rmr_set_trace(3), rmr_torcv_msg(3),
154 rmr_wh_open(3), rmr_wh_send_msg(3)