Msg File src/inet/applications/tcpapp/GenericAppMsg.msg

Name	Type	Description
GenericAppMsg	packet	Message class for generic request-reply style applications. The client sends a GenericAppMsg which contains the number of bytes the client wants the server to send back as reply.

Source code:

//
// Copyright (C) 2004 Andras Varga
//
// This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
// modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License
// as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
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//
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// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
// GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
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//


cplusplus {{
#include "inet/common/INETDefs.h"
}}

namespace inet;

//
// Message class for generic request-reply style applications.
// The client sends a ~GenericAppMsg which contains the number of
// bytes the client wants the server to send back as reply.
//
// This way intelligence (behaviour specific to the modelled application,
// e.g. HTTP, SMB, database protocol) needs only to be present in
// the client, and the server model can be kept simple and dumb.
//
// @see ~TCPGenericSrvApp, TCPGenericCliAppBase (C++ only)
//
packet GenericAppMsg
{
    int expectedReplyLength; // in bytes
    double replyDelay;       // reply after this many seconds
    bool serverClose;        // with TCP: if true, server should close the
                             // connection after sending the reply
}