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authorAnders Svensson <[email protected]>2017-04-30 10:08:54 +0200
committerAnders Svensson <[email protected]>2017-06-13 13:50:07 +0200
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Restore diameter_codec:decode/2, update diameter_codec(3)
The documentation has been out of date since the string_decode option was added in commit 1590920c. The optionless decode/2 was removed in the commit that removed the use of the process dictionary in decode.
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-rw-r--r--lib/diameter/doc/src/diameter_codec.xml19
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/lib/diameter/doc/src/diameter_codec.xml b/lib/diameter/doc/src/diameter_codec.xml
index 91e96058dd..0117c1c88a 100644
--- a/lib/diameter/doc/src/diameter_codec.xml
+++ b/lib/diameter/doc/src/diameter_codec.xml
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@
<erlref>
<header>
<copyright>
-<year>2012</year><year>2016</year>
+<year>2012</year>
+<year>2017</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -53,17 +54,17 @@ communicated to &man_app; callbacks.
Similarly, outgoing Diameter messages are encoded into binary() before
being passed to the appropriate &man_transport; module for
transmission.
-The functions in this module implement this encode/decode.</p>
+The functions documented here implement the default encode/decode.</p>
-<note>
+<warning>
<p>
-Calls to this module are made by diameter itself as a consequence of
-configuration passed to &mod_start_service;.
-The encode/decode functions may also be useful for other purposes (eg.
-test) but the diameter user does not need to call them explicitly when
+The diameter user does not need to call functions here explicitly when
sending and receiving messages using &mod_call; and the callback
-interface documented in &man_app;.</p>
-</note>
+interface documented in &man_app;: diameter itself provides encode/decode
+as a consequence of configuration passed to &mod_start_service;, and
+the results may differ from those returned by the functions documented
+here, depending on configuration.</p>
+</warning>
<p>
The &header; and &packet; records below