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authorMicael Karlberg <[email protected]>2011-10-11 10:38:48 +0200
committerMicael Karlberg <[email protected]>2011-10-11 10:38:48 +0200
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Merge branch 'master' of super:otp into bmk/inets/inets58_integration
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diff --git a/lib/diameter/doc/src/diameter.xml b/lib/diameter/doc/src/diameter.xml
index 36b6cbf0cf..43c497f50a 100644
--- a/lib/diameter/doc/src/diameter.xml
+++ b/lib/diameter/doc/src/diameter.xml
@@ -277,6 +277,10 @@ callback.</p>
</taglist>
+<p>
+An invalid option will cause <seealso marker="#call">call/4</seealso>
+to fail.</p>
+
<marker id="capability"/>
</item>
@@ -363,6 +367,19 @@ capabilities exchange message.
Optional, defaults to the empty list.</p>
</item>
+<tag><c>{'Inband-Security-Id', [Unsigned32()]}</c></tag>
+<item>
+<p>
+Values of Inband-Security-Id AVPs sent in an outgoing
+capabilities exchange message.
+Optional, defaults to the empty list, which is equivalent to a
+list containing only 0 (= NO_INBAND_SECURITY).</p>
+
+<p>
+If 1 (= TLS) is specified then TLS is selected if the CER/CEA received
+from the peer offers it.</p>
+</item>
+
<tag><c>{'Acct-Application-Id', [Unsigned32()]}</c></tag>
<item>
<p>
@@ -405,6 +422,8 @@ sense.</p>
<code>
eval([{M,F,A} | T]) ->
apply(M, F, T ++ A);
+eval([[F|A] | T]) ->
+ eval([F | T ++ A]);
eval([F|A]) ->
apply(F, A);
eval(F) ->
@@ -461,14 +480,14 @@ or any peer if the request does not contain
a <c>Destination-Realm</c> AVP.</p>
</item>
-<tag><c>{host, any|UTF8String()}</c></tag>
+<tag><c>{host, any|DiameterIdentity()}</c></tag>
<item>
<p>
Matches only those peers whose <c>Origin-Host</c> has the
specified value, or all peers if the atom <c>any</c>.</p>
</item>
-<tag><c>{realm, any|UTF8String()</c></tag>
+<tag><c>{realm, any|DiameterIdentity()</c></tag>
<item>
<p>
Matches only those peers whose <c>Origin-Realm</c> has the
@@ -478,8 +497,9 @@ value, or all peers if the atom <c>any</c>.</p>
<tag><c>{eval, evaluable()}</c></tag>
<item>
<p>
-Matches only those peers for which the specified evaluable() evaluates
-to true on the peer's <c>diameter_caps</c> record.</p>
+Matches only those peers for which the specified evaluable() returns
+<c>true</c> on the connection's <c>diameter_caps</c> record.
+Any other return value or exception is equivalent to <c>false</c>.</p>
</item>
<tag><c>{neg, peer_filter()}</c></tag>
@@ -503,6 +523,21 @@ specified list.</p>
</taglist>
+<p>
+Note that the <c>host</c> and <c>realm</c> filters examine the
+outgoing request as passed to <seealso marker="#call">call/4</seealso>,
+assuming that this is a record- or list-valued message() as documented
+in <seealso marker="diameter_app">diameter_app(3)</seealso>, and that
+the message contains at most one of each AVP.
+If this is not the case then the <c>{host|realm, DiameterIdentity()}</c>
+filters must be used to achieve the desired result.
+Note also that an empty host/realm (which should not be typical)
+is equivalent to an unspecified one for the purposes of filtering.</p>
+
+<p>
+An invalid filter is equivalent to <c>{any, []}</c>, a filter
+that matches no peer.</p>
+
<marker id="service_event"/>
</item>
@@ -661,6 +696,14 @@ in question.</p>
AVP's used to construct outgoing CER/CEA messages.
Any AVP specified takes precedence over a corresponding value specified
for the service in question.</p>
+
+<p>
+Specifying a capability as a transport option
+may be particularly appropriate for Inband-Security-Id in case
+TLS is desired over TCP as implemented by
+<seealso marker="diameter_tcp">diameter_tcp(3)</seealso> but
+not over SCTP as implemented by
+<seealso marker="diameter_sctp">diameter_sctp(3)</seealso>.</p>
</item>
<tag><c>{watchdog_timer, TwInit}</c></tag>
@@ -787,7 +830,7 @@ transports.</p>
<type>
<v>SvcName = service_name()</v>
<v>App = application_alias()</v>
-<v>Request = diameter_app:message()</v>
+<v>Request = diameter_app:message() | term()</v>
<v>Answer = term()</v>
<v>Options = [call_opt()]</v>
</type>
@@ -819,9 +862,8 @@ If there are no suitable peers, or if
<seealso marker="diameter_app#pick_peer">pick_peer/4</seealso>
rejects them by returning 'false', then <c>{error, no_connection}</c>
is returned.
-If <seealso marker="diameter_app#pick_peer">pick_peer/4</seealso>
-selects a candidate peer then a request process is spawned for the
-outgoing request, in which there is a
+Otherwise <seealso marker="diameter_app#pick_peer">pick_peer/4</seealso>
+is followed by a
<seealso
marker="diameter_app#prepare_request">prepare_request/3</seealso>
callback, the message is encoded and sent.</p>