RtecUDPAdmin.idl

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/**
 * @file RtecUDPAdmin.idl
 *
 * @brief Define the RtecUDPAdmin module
 *
 * $Id: RtecUDPAdmin.idl 78550 2007-06-05 19:01:50Z mesnier_p $
 *
 * TAO's Real-time Event Service is described in:
 *
 * http://doc.ece.uci.edu/~coryan/EC/
 *
 * @author Carlos O'Ryan <coryan@uci.edu>
 */

#ifndef TAO_RTEC_UDP_ADMIN_IDL
#define TAO_RTEC_UDP_ADMIN_IDL

#include "RtecEventComm.idl"
#include "tao/OctetSeq.pidl"

/**
 * @namespace RtecUDPAdmin
 *
 * @brief Define the data structures and interfaces used by UDP-based
 *   gateways
 */
module RtecUDPAdmin
{
  /**
   * @struct UDP_Addr
   *
   * @brief Represent a UDP SAP.
   */
  struct UDP_Addr
  {
    /// The IP address
    unsigned long ipaddr;
    /// The UDP port
    unsigned short port;
  };

  /**
   * @struct UDP_Addr_v6
   *
   * @brief Represent a UDP SAP sufficient to hold an IPv6 address.
   */

  struct UDP_Addr_v6
  {
    char ipaddr[16]; // used to match with ACE_INET_Addr::set_address
    unsigned short port;
  };

  /**
   * @enum Address_Family
   *
   * @brief Defines the address family identifiers. The more familiar
   *  AF_INET, AF_INET6 are not used to avoid potential confusion.
   *
   */
  enum Address_Family
  {
    Rtec_inet,
    Rtec_inet6
  };

  /**
   * @union UDP_Address
   *
   * @brief Holds either an IPv4 or IPv6 address and used for the
   *  return value from get_address below.
   *
   */
  union UDP_Address switch (Address_Family)
  {
  case Rtec_inet:
    UDP_Addr v4_addr;
  case Rtec_inet6:
    UDP_Addr_v6 v6_addr;
  };

  /**
   * @interface AddrServer
   *
   * @brief Defines a interface to configure the mapping between
   *   events and multicast groups (or UDP broadcast or UDP unicast)
   *   addresses.
   */
  interface AddrServer
  {
    /// Get the UDP address given the event header
    /**
     * @deprecated, applications should use get_address, which
     *   supports both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
     * @param header The event header, used to fetch the type and
     *   source of the event
     * @param addr Return the address used for the given event type
     */
    void get_addr (in RtecEventComm::EventHeader header,
                   out UDP_Addr addr);

    /// Get the UDP address given the event header, supports either
    /// IPv4 or IPv6
    /**
     * @param header The event header, used to fetch the type and
     *   source of the event
     * @param addr Return the address used for the given event type
     */
    void get_address (in RtecEventComm::EventHeader header,
                      out UDP_Address addr);
  };
};

#endif /* TAO_RTEC_UDP_ADMIN_IDL */

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