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diff --git a/lib/diameter/doc/src/diameter_dict.xml b/lib/diameter/doc/src/diameter_dict.xml index e7c530f1b8..01616f519d 100644 --- a/lib/diameter/doc/src/diameter_dict.xml +++ b/lib/diameter/doc/src/diameter_dict.xml @@ -44,9 +44,9 @@ A diameter service as configured with <seealso marker="diameter#start_service">diameter:start_service/2</seealso> specifies one or more supported Diameter applications. Each Diameter application specifies a dictionary module that knows how -to encode and decode its messages and AVP's. +to encode and decode its messages and AVPs. The dictionary module is in turn generated from a file that defines -these messages and AVP's. +these messages and AVPs. The format of such a file is defined in <seealso marker="#FILE_FORMAT">FILE FORMAT</seealso> below. Users add support for their specific applications by creating @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ resulting dictionaries modules on a service.</p> <p> The codec generation also results in a hrl file that defines records -for the messages and grouped AVP's defined for the application, these +for the messages and grouped AVPs defined for the application, these records being what a user of the diameter application sends and receives. (Modulo other available formats as discussed in <seealso marker="diameter_app">diameter_app(3)</seealso>.) @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ that diameter itself has any specific knowledge of. The Common Message application is used for messages that diameter itself handles: CER/CEA, DWR/DWA and DPR/DPA. The Relay application is given special treatment with regard to -encode/decode since the messages and AVP's it handles are not specifically +encode/decode since the messages and AVPs it handles are not specifically defined.</p> <marker id="FILE_FORMAT"/> @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ Name must be of the same form as a @name.</p> <p> A prefix is optional but can be used to disambiguate record and constant names -resulting from similarly named messages and AVP's in different +resulting from similarly named messages and AVPs in different Diameter applications.</p> <p> @@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ Example:</p> <tag><c>@vendor Number Name</c></tag> <item> <p> -Defines the integer Number as the the default Vendor-ID of AVP's for +Defines the integer Number as the the default Vendor-ID of AVPs for which the V flag is set. Name documents the owner of the application but is otherwise unused. @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ Example:</p> <tag><c>@avp_vendor_id Number</c></tag> <item> <p> -Defines the integer Number as the Vendor-ID of the AVP's listed in the +Defines the integer Number as the Vendor-ID of the AVPs listed in the section content, overriding the <c>@vendor</c> default. The section content consists of AVP names. Can occur zero or more times (with different values of Number).</p> @@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ set on an outgoing AVP or a single - (minus) character if none are to be set. Type identifies either an AVP Data Format as defined in <seealso marker="#DATA_TYPES">DATA TYPES</seealso> below or a -type as defined by a <c>@custom_types</c> tag.</p> +type as defined by a <c>@custom_types</c> section.</p> <p> Example:</p> @@ -277,11 +277,11 @@ to 0 as mandated by the current draft standard.</p> <item> <p> Defines AVPs for which module Mod provides encode/decode. -The section contents consists of type names. -For each AVP Name defined with custom type Type, Mod should export the -function Name/3 with arguments encode|decode, Type and Data, -the latter being the term to be encoded/decoded. -The function returns the encoded/decoded value.</p> +The section contents consists of AVP names. +For each AVP Name in the content, <c>Mod:Name(encode|decode, Type, Data)</c> +is expected to provide encode/decode for values of the AVP, where Type +is the type of the AVP as declared in the <c>@avp_types</c> section +of the dictionary and Data is the value to encoded/decoded.</p> <p> Can occur 0 or more times (with different values of Mod).</p> @@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ Can occur 0 or more times (with different values of Mod).</p> Example:</p> <code> -@custom_types rfc4005_types +@custom_types rfc4005_avps Framed-IP-Address </code> |