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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="latin1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE erlref SYSTEM "erlref.dtd">
<erlref>
<header>
<copyright>
<year>2011</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License,
Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in
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Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be
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Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See
the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations
under the License.
</legalnotice>
<title>diameter_transport(3)</title>
<prepared>Anders Svensson</prepared>
<responsible></responsible>
<docno></docno>
<approved></approved>
<checked></checked>
<date></date>
<rev></rev>
<file>diameter_transport.xml</file>
</header>
<module>diameter_transport</module>
<modulesummary>Diameter transport interface.</modulesummary>
<description>
<p>
A module specified as a <c>transport_module</c> to <seealso
marker="diameter#add_transport">diameter:add_transport/2</seealso>
must implement the interface documented here.
The interface consists of a function with which
diameter starts a transport process and a message interface with which
the transport process communicates with the process that starts it (aka its
parent).</p>
<marker id="start"/>
</description>
<!-- ===================================================================== -->
<funcs>
<func>
<name>Mod:start({Type, Ref}, Svc, Opts)
-> {ok, Pid} | {ok, Pid, LAddrs} | {error, Reason}</name>
<fsummary>Start a transport process.</fsummary>
<type>
<v>Type = connect | accept</v>
<v>Ref = reference()</v>
<v>Svc = #diameter_service{}</v>
<v>Opts = term()</v>
<v>Pid = pid()</v>
<v>LAddrs = [ip_address()]</v>
<v>Reason = term()</v>
</type>
<desc>
<p>
Start a transport process.
Called by diameter as a consequence of a call to <seealso
marker="diameter#add_transport">diameter:add_transport/2</seealso> in
order to establish or accept a transport connection respectively.
A transport process maintains a connection with a single remote peer.</p>
<p>
The first argument indicates whether the transport process in question
is being started for a connecting (<c>connect</c>) or listening
(<c>accept</c>) transport.
In the latter case, transport processes are started as required to
accept connections from multiple peers.
Ref is in each case the same value that was returned from the
call to <seealso
marker="diameter#add_transport">diameter:add_transport/2</seealso>
that has lead to starting of a transport process.</p>
<p>
A transport process must implement the message interface documented below.
It should retain the pid of its parent, monitor the parent and terminate if
it dies.
It should not link to the parent.
It should exit if its transport connection with its peer is lost.</p>
<p>
Transport processes for a given service are started sequentially.</p>
<p>
The start function should use the 'Host-IP-Address' list on the service,
namely <c>Svc#diameter_service.host_ip_address</c>, and/or
<c>Opts</c> to select an appropriate list of local IP addresses,
and should return this list if different from the service addresses.
The returned list is used to populate 'Host-IP-Address' AVPs in outgoing
capabilities exchange messages, the service addresses being used
otherwise.</p>
<marker id="MESSAGES"/>
</desc>
</func>
</funcs>
<!-- ===================================================================== -->
<section>
<title>MESSAGES</title>
<p>
All messages sent over the transport interface are of the
form <c>{diameter, term()}</c>.</p>
<p>
A transport process can expect the following messages from
diameter.</p>
<taglist>
<tag><c>{diameter, {send, Packet}}</c></tag>
<item>
<p>
An outbound Diameter message.
Packet can be either <c>binary()</c> (the message to be sent)
or a <c>#diameter_packet{}</c> whose <c>transport_data</c> field
containes a value other than undefined.</p>
</item>
<tag><c>{diameter, {close, Pid}}</c></tag>
<item>
<p>
A request to close the transport connection.
The transport process should terminate after closing the
connection.
Pid is the pid() of the parent process.</p>
</item>
</taglist>
<p>
A transport process should send the following messages
to its parent.</p>
<taglist>
<tag><c>{diameter, {self(), connected}}</c></tag>
<item>
<p>
Inform the parent that the transport process with Type = accept has
established a connection with the peer.
Not sent if the transport process has Type = connect.</p>
</item>
<tag><c>{diameter, {self(), connected, Remote}}</c></tag>
<item>
<p>
Inform the parent that the transport process with Type = connect
has established a connection with a peer.
Not sent if the transport process has Type = accept.
Remote is an arbitrary term that uniquely identifies the remote
endpoint to which the transport has connected.</p>
</item>
<tag><c>{diameter, {recv, Packet}}</c></tag>
<item>
<p>
An inbound Diameter message.
Packet can be either <c>binary()</c> (the message to be sent)
or <c>#diameter_packet{}</c>
whose <c>packet</c> field contains a <c>binary()</c>.
Any value (other than undefined) set in
the <c>transport_data</c> field will be passed back with a
corresponding answer message in the case that the inbound message is a
request unless the sender sets another value.
How the <c>transport_data</c> is used/interpreted is up to the
transport module.</p>
</item>
</taglist>
</section>
<!-- ===================================================================== -->
<!-- ===================================================================== -->
<section>
<title>SEE ALSO</title>
<p>
<seealso marker="diameter_tcp">diameter_tcp(3)</seealso>,
<seealso marker="diameter_sctp">diameter_sctp(3)</seealso></p>
</section>
</erlref>
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