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authorAnders Svensson <[email protected]>2012-11-18 19:39:37 +0100
committerAnders Svensson <[email protected]>2012-11-18 19:39:37 +0100
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@@ -512,6 +512,17 @@ following types.</p>
<taglist>
+<tag><c>start</c></tag>
+<tag><c>stop</c></tag>
+
+<item>
+<p>
+The service is being started or stopped.
+No event precedes a <c>start</c> event.
+No event follows a <c>stop</c> event and this event
+implies the termination of all transport processes.</p>
+</item>
+
<tag><c>{up, Ref, Peer, Config, Pkt}</c></tag>
<tag><c>{up, Ref, Peer, Config}</c></tag>
<tag><c>{down, Ref, Peer, Config}</c></tag>
@@ -606,6 +617,14 @@ indicated result code.
<c>Pkt</c> contains the CER in question.</p>
</item>
+<tag><c>{'CER', timeout}</c></tag>
+<item>
+<p>
+An expected CER was not received within <seealso
+marker="#capx_timeout">capx_timeout</seealso> of
+connection establishment.</p>
+</item>
+
<tag><c>{'CEA', Result, Caps, Pkt}</c></tag>
<item>
<code>
@@ -639,6 +658,14 @@ An incoming CEA contained errors and has been rejected.
<c>Pkt</c> contains the CEA in question.</p>
</item>
+<tag><c>{'CEA', timeout}</c></tag>
+<item>
+<p>
+An expected CEA was not received within <seealso
+marker="#capx_timeout">capx_timeout</seealso>
+of connection establishment.</p>
+</item>
+
</taglist>
</item>
@@ -693,7 +720,8 @@ well as the following.</p>
Defines a Diameter application supported by the service.</p>
<p>
-A service must configure one <c>application</c> for each Diameter
+A service must configure one <seealso
+marker="#application">application</seealso> for each Diameter
application it intends to support.
For an outgoing Diameter request, the relevant <c><seealso
marker="#application_alias">application_alias()</seealso></c> is
@@ -708,7 +736,7 @@ file.</p>
| node
| nodes
| [node()]
- | diameter:evaluable()}</c></tag>
+ | evaluable()}</c></tag>
<item>
<p>
Specifies the degree to which multiple transport connections to the
@@ -718,10 +746,10 @@ same peer are accepted by the service.</p>
If type <c>[node()]</c> then a connection is rejected if another already
exists on any of the specified nodes.
Values of type <c>false</c>, <c>node</c>, <c>nodes</c> or
-<c>diameter:evaluable()</c> are equivalent to values <c>[]</c>,
-<c>[node()]</c>, <c>[node()|nodes()]</c> and the evaluated value,
-respectively, evaluation of each expression taking place whenever a
-new connection is to be established.
+<seealso marker="#evaluable">evaluable()</seealso> are equivalent to
+values <c>[]</c>, <c>[node()]</c>, <c>[node()|nodes()]</c> and the
+evaluated value, respectively, evaluation of each expression taking
+place whenever a new connection is to be established.
Note that <c>false</c> allows an unlimited number of connections to be
established with the same peer.</p>
@@ -734,14 +762,14 @@ Defaults to <c>nodes</c>.</p>
</item>
<tag><c>{sequence, {H,N} | <seealso
- marker="diameter#evaluable">diameter:evaluable()</seealso>}</c></tag>
+ marker="#evaluable">evaluable()</seealso>}</c></tag>
<item>
<p>
Specifies a constant value <c>H</c> for the topmost <c>32-N</c> bits of
of 32-bit End-to-End and Hop-by-Hop identifiers generated
by the service, either explicity or as a return value of a function
to be evaluated at <seealso
-marker="diameter#start_service">diameter:start_service/2</seealso>.
+marker="#start_service">start_service/2</seealso>.
In particular, an identifier <c>Id</c> is mapped to a new identifier
as follows.</p>
<code>
@@ -775,53 +803,7 @@ marker="#add_transport">add_transport/2</seealso>.
Has one of the following types.</p>
<taglist>
-<tag><c>{transport_module, atom()}</c></tag>
-<item>
-<p>
-A module implementing a transport process as defined in <seealso
-marker="diameter_transport">diameter_transport(3)</seealso>.
-Defaults to <c>diameter_tcp</c> if unspecified.</p>
-
-<p>
-Multiple <c>transport_module</c> and <c>transport_config</c>
-options are allowed.
-The order of these is significant in this case (and only in this case),
-a <c>transport_module</c> being paired with the first
-<c>transport_config</c> following it in the options list, or the
-default value for trailing modules.
-Transport starts will be attempted with each of the
-modules in order until one establishes a connection within the
-corresponding timeout (see below) or all fail.</p>
-</item>
-
-<tag><c>{transport_config, term()}</c></tag>
-<tag><c>{transport_config, term(), <seealso marker="diameter_dict#DATA_TYPES">Unsigned32()</seealso>}</c></tag>
-<item>
-<p>
-A term passed as the third argument to the <seealso
-marker="diameter_transport#start">start/3</seealso> function of
-the relevant <c>transport_module</c> in order to start a transport process.
-Defaults to the empty list if unspecified.</p>
-
-<p>
-The 3-tuple form additionally specifies an interval, in milliseconds,
-after which a started transport process should be terminated if it has
-not yet established a connection.
-For example, the following options on a connecting transport
-request a connection with one peer over SCTP or another
-(typically the same) over TCP.</p>
-
-<code>
-{transport_module, diameter_sctp}
-{transport_config, SctpOpts, 5000}
-{transport_module, diameter_tcp}
-{transport_config, TcpOpts}
-</code>
-
-<p>
-To listen on both SCTP and TCP, define one transport for each.</p>
-</item>
-
+<marker id="applications"/>
<tag><c>{applications, [<seealso marker="#application_alias">application_alias()</seealso>]}</c></tag>
<item>
<p>
@@ -831,6 +813,7 @@ Defaults to all applications configured on the service in question.
Applications not configured on the service in question are ignored.</p>
</item>
+<marker id="capabilities"/>
<tag><c>{capabilities, [<seealso marker="#capability">capability()</seealso>]}</c></tag>
<item>
<p>
@@ -845,56 +828,156 @@ TLS is desired over TCP as implemented by
<seealso marker="diameter_tcp">diameter_tcp(3)</seealso>.</p>
</item>
+<marker id="capabilities_cb"/>
<tag><c>{capabilities_cb, <seealso marker="#evaluable">evaluable()</seealso>}</c></tag>
<item>
<p>
A callback invoked upon reception of CER/CEA during capabilities
exchange in order to ask whether or not the connection should
be accepted.
-Applied to the relevant <c><seealso
-marker="#transport_ref">transport_ref()</seealso></c> and the
-<c>#diameter_caps{}</c> record of the connection.
-Returning <c>ok</c> accepts the connection.
-Returning <c>integer()</c> causes an incoming
-CER to be answered with the specified Result-Code.
-Returning <c>discard</c> causes an incoming CER to
-be discarded.
-Returning <c>unknown</c> is equivalent to returning <c>3010</c>,
-DIAMETER_UNKNOWN_PEER.
-Returning anything but <c>ok</c> or a 2xxx series result
-code causes the transport connection to be broken.</p>
+Applied to the <c><seealso
+marker="#transport_ref">transport_ref()</seealso></c> and
+<c>#diameter_caps{}</c> record of the connection.</p>
+
+<p>
+The return value can have one of the following types.</p>
+<taglist>
+<tag><c>ok</c></tag>
+<item>
<p>
-Multiple <c>capabilities_cb</c> options can be specified, in which
+Accept the connection.</p>
+</item>
+
+<tag><c>integer()</c></tag>
+<item>
+<p>
+Causes an incoming CER to be answered with the specified Result-Code.</p>
+</item>
+
+<tag><c>discard</c></tag>
+<item>
+<p>
+Causes an incoming CER to be discarded without CEA being sent.</p>
+</item>
+
+<tag><c>unknown</c></tag>
+<item>
+<p>
+Equivalent to returning <c>3010</c>, DIAMETER_UNKNOWN_PEER.</p>
+</item>
+</taglist>
+
+<p>
+Returning anything but <c>ok</c> or a 2xxx series result
+code causes the transport connection to be broken.
+Multiple <seealso marker="#capabilities_cb">capabilities_cb</seealso>
+options can be specified, in which
case the corresponding callbacks are applied until either all return
<c>ok</c> or one does not.</p>
+</item>
-<marker id="watchdog_timer"/>
+<marker id="capx_timeout"/>
+<tag><c>{capx_timeout,
+ <seealso marker="diameter_dict#DATA_TYPES">Unsigned32()</seealso>}</c></tag>
+<item>
+<p>
+The number of milliseconds after which a transport process having an
+established transport connection will be terminated if the expected
+capabilities exchange message (CER or CEA) is not received from the peer.
+For a connecting transport, the timing reconnection attempts is
+governed by <seealso marker="#watchdog_timer">watchdog_timer</seealso> or
+<seealso marker="#reconnect_timer">reconnect_timer</seealso> expiry.
+For a listening transport, the peer determines the timing.</p>
+
+<p>
+Defaults to 10000.</p>
</item>
-<tag><c>{watchdog_timer, TwInit}</c></tag>
+<marker id="disconnect_cb"/>
+<tag><c>{disconnect_cb, <seealso marker="#evaluable">evaluable()</seealso>}</c></tag>
+
<item>
-<code>
-TwInit = <seealso marker="diameter_dict#DATA_TYPES">Unsigned32()</seealso>
- | {M,F,A}
-</code>
+<p>
+A callback invoked prior to terminating the transport process of a
+transport connection having watchdog state <c>OKAY</c>.
+Applied to <c>Reason=transport|service|application</c> and the
+<c><seealso marker="#transport_ref">transport_ref()</seealso></c> and
+<c><seealso marker="diameter_app#peer">diameter_app:peer()</seealso></c>
+in question, <c>Reason</c> indicating whether the the diameter
+application is being stopped, the service in question is being stopped
+at <seealso
+marker="#stop_service">stop_service/1</seealso> or
+the transport in question is being removed at <seealso
+marker="#remove_transport">remove_transport/2</seealso>,
+respectively.</p>
<p>
-The RFC 3539 watchdog timer.
-An integer value is interpreted as the RFC's TwInit in milliseconds,
-a jitter of &plusmn; 2 seconds being added at each rearming of the
-timer to compute the RFC's Tw.
-An MFA is expected to return the RFC's Tw directly, with jitter
-applied, allowing the jitter calculation to be performed by
-the callback.</p>
+The return value can have one of the following types.</p>
+<taglist>
+<tag><c>{dpr, [option()]}</c></tag>
+<item>
<p>
-An integer value must be at least 6000 as required by RFC 3539.
-Defaults to 30000 if unspecified.</p>
+Causes Disconnect-Peer-Request to be sent to the peer, the transport
+process being terminated following reception of
+Disconnect-Peer-Answer or timeout.
+An <c>option()</c> can be one of the following.</p>
-<marker id="reconnect_timer"/>
+<taglist>
+<tag><c>{cause, 0|rebooting|1|busy|2|goaway}</c></tag>
+<item>
+<p>
+The Disconnect-Cause to send, <c>REBOOTING</c>, <c>BUSY</c> and
+<c>DO_NOT_WANT_TO_TALK_TO_YOU</c> respectively.
+Defaults to <c>rebooting</c> for <c>Reason=service|application</c> and
+<c>goaway</c> for <c>Reason=transport</c>.</p>
+</item>
+
+<tag><c>{timeout,
+ <seealso marker="diameter_dict#DATA_TYPES">Unsigned32()</seealso>}</c></tag>
+<item>
+<p>
+The number of milliseconds after which the transport process is
+terminated if DPA has not been received.
+Defaults to 1000.</p>
+</item>
+</taglist>
+</item>
+
+<tag><c>dpr</c></tag>
+<item>
+<p>
+Equivalent to <c>{dpr, []}</c>.</p>
+</item>
+
+<tag><c>close</c></tag>
+<item>
+<p>
+Causes the transport process to be terminated without
+Disconnect-Peer-Request being sent to the peer.</p>
+</item>
+
+<tag><c>ignore</c></tag>
+<item>
+<p>
+Equivalent to not having configured the callback.</p>
+</item>
+</taglist>
+
+<p>
+Multiple <seealso marker="#disconnect_cb">disconnect_cb</seealso>
+options can be specified, in which
+case the corresponding callbacks are applied until one of them returns
+a value other than <c>ignore</c>.
+All callbacks returning <c>ignore</c> is equivalent to not having
+configured them.</p>
+
+<p>
+Defaults to a single callback returning <c>dpr</c>.</p>
</item>
+<marker id="reconnect_timer"/>
<tag><c>{reconnect_timer, Tc}</c></tag>
<item>
<code>
@@ -906,8 +989,9 @@ For a connecting transport, the RFC 3588 Tc timer, in milliseconds.
Note that this timer determines the frequency with which a transport
will attempt to establish a connection with its peer only <em>before</em>
an initial connection is established: once there is an initial
-connection it's watchdog_timer that determines the frequency of
-reconnection attempts, as required by RFC 3539.</p>
+connection it's <seealso
+marker="#watchdog_timer">watchdog_timer</seealso> that determines the
+frequency of reconnection attempts, as required by RFC 3539.</p>
<p>
For a listening transport, the timer specifies the time after which a
@@ -915,14 +999,89 @@ previously connected peer will be forgotten: a connection after this time is
regarded as an initial connection rather than a reestablishment,
causing the RFC 3539 state machine to pass to state OKAY rather than
REOPEN.
-Note that these semantics are not goverened by the RFC and
-that a listening transport's <c>reconnect_timer</c> should be greater
+Note that these semantics are not governed by the RFC and
+that a listening transport's <seealso
+marker="#reconnect_timer">reconnect_timer</seealso> should be greater
than its peer's Tw plus jitter.</p>
<p>
Defaults to 30000 for a connecting transport and 60000 for a listening
transport.</p>
+</item>
+
+<marker id="transport_config"/>
+<tag><c>{transport_config, term()}</c></tag>
+<tag><c>{transport_config, term(), <seealso marker="diameter_dict#DATA_TYPES">Unsigned32()</seealso>}</c></tag>
+<item>
+<p>
+A term passed as the third argument to the <seealso
+marker="diameter_transport#start">start/3</seealso> function of
+the relevant <seealso
+marker="#transport_module">transport_module</seealso> in order to
+start a transport process.
+Defaults to the empty list if unspecified.</p>
+
+<p>
+The 3-tuple form additionally specifies an interval, in milliseconds,
+after which a started transport process should be terminated if it has
+not yet established a connection.
+For example, the following options on a connecting transport
+request a connection with one peer over SCTP or another
+(typically the same) over TCP.</p>
+<code>
+{transport_module, diameter_sctp}
+{transport_config, SctpOpts, 5000}
+{transport_module, diameter_tcp}
+{transport_config, TcpOpts}
+</code>
+
+<p>
+To listen on both SCTP and TCP, define one transport for each.</p>
+</item>
+
+<marker id="transport_module"/>
+<tag><c>{transport_module, atom()}</c></tag>
+<item>
+<p>
+A module implementing a transport process as defined in <seealso
+marker="diameter_transport">diameter_transport(3)</seealso>.
+Defaults to <c>diameter_tcp</c> if unspecified.</p>
+
+<p>
+Multiple <c>transport_module</c> and <seealso
+marker="#transport_config">transport_config</seealso>
+options are allowed.
+The order of these is significant in this case (and only in this case),
+a <c>transport_module</c> being paired with the first
+<seealso marker="#transport_config">transport_config</seealso>
+following it in the options list, or the default value for trailing
+modules.
+Transport starts will be attempted with each of the
+modules in order until one establishes a connection within the
+corresponding timeout (see below) or all fail.</p>
+</item>
+
+<marker id="watchdog_timer"/>
+<tag><c>{watchdog_timer, TwInit}</c></tag>
+<item>
+<code>
+TwInit = <seealso marker="diameter_dict#DATA_TYPES">Unsigned32()</seealso>
+ | {M,F,A}
+</code>
+
+<p>
+The RFC 3539 watchdog timer.
+An integer value is interpreted as the RFC's TwInit in milliseconds,
+a jitter of &plusmn; 2 seconds being added at each rearming of the
+timer to compute the RFC's Tw.
+An MFA is expected to return the RFC's Tw directly, with jitter
+applied, allowing the jitter calculation to be performed by
+the callback.</p>
+
+<p>
+An integer value must be at least 6000 as required by RFC 3539.
+Defaults to 30000 if unspecified.</p>
</item>
</taglist>
@@ -1150,7 +1309,7 @@ at the time the diameter application was started.</p>
<!-- ===================================================================== -->
<func>
-<name>remove_transport(SvcName, Pred) -> ok</name>
+<name>remove_transport(SvcName, Pred) -> ok | {error, Reason}</name>
<fsummary>Remove previously added transports.</fsummary>
<type>
<v>SvcName = <seealso marker="#service_name">service_name()</seealso></v>
@@ -1160,6 +1319,7 @@ at the time the diameter application was started.</p>
<v>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; | fun((<seealso marker="#transport_ref">transport_ref()</seealso>, list()) -> boolean())</v>
<v>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; | fun((list()) -> boolean())</v>
<v>MFA = {atom(), atom(), list()}</v>
+<v>Reason = term()</v>
</type>
<desc>
<p>
@@ -1185,15 +1345,12 @@ Pred = {M,F,A}: fun(Ref, Type, Opts) -> apply(M, F, [Ref, Type, Opts | A]) end
</code>
<p>
-Removing a transport causes all associated transport connections to
-be broken.
-A DPR message with
-Disconnect-Cause <c>DO_NOT_WANT_TO_TALK_TO_YOU</c> will be sent
-to each connected peer before disassociating the transport configuration
-from the service and terminating the transport upon reception of
-DPA or timeout.</p>
-
-<!-- TODO: document the timeout value, possibly make configurable. -->
+Removing a transport causes the corresponding transport processes to
+be terminated.
+Whether or not a DPR message is sent to a peer is
+controlled by
+value of <seealso marker="disconnect_cb">disconnect_cb</seealso>
+configured on the transport.</p>
<marker id="service_info"/>
</desc>