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   34
   35:- module(tipc,
   36          [ tipc_socket/2,              % -Socket  +Type
   37            tipc_close_socket/1,        % +Socket
   38            tipc_setopt/2,              % +Socket, +Option
   39            tipc_bind/3,                % +Socket, +Address +Scope
   40            tipc_listen/2,              % +Socket, +BackLog
   41            tipc_accept/3,              % +Master, -Slave, -PeerName
   42            tipc_open_socket/3,         % +Socket, -Read, -Write
   43            tipc_get_name/2,            % +Socket, -Address
   44            tipc_get_peer_name/2,       % +Socket, -Address
   45            tipc_connect/2,             % +Socket, +Address
   46            tipc_receive/4,             % +Socket, -Data, -Sender, +Options
   47            tipc_send/4,                % +Socket, +Data, +Receiver, +Options
   48%           tipc_subscribe/5, % +Socket, +Address, +Timeout, +Filter,
   49%           +Usr_handle
   50
   51%           tipc_receive_subscr_event/2, % +Socket, -Event
   52            tipc_canonical_address/2,   % -Address, +port_id/2
   53            tipc_service_probe/1,       % ?Address
   54            tipc_service_probe/2,       % ?Address, ?PortId
   55            tipc_service_port_monitor/2, % +Address, :Goal
   56            tipc_service_port_monitor/3, % +Address, :Goal, +Timeout
   57            tipc_service_exists/1,      % +Address
   58            tipc_service_exists/2,       % +Address +Timeout
   59            tipc_initialize/0            %
   60          ]).   61:- autoload(library(apply),[maplist/3]).   62:- autoload(library(lists),[member/2]).   63
   64:- use_foreign_library(foreign(tipc)).   65
   66:- multifile tipc_stack_initialize/0.

TIPC Sockets

Transparent Inter-Process Communication (TIPC) provides a flexible, reliable, fault-tolerant, high-speed, and low-overhead framework for inter-process communication between federations of trusted peers, operating as a unit. It was developed by Ericsson AB, as a means to provide for communications between Common Control Systems processes and Network Element peers in telephone switching systems, sometimes operating at arm's length on different line cards or mainframes. Delegation of responsibility in this way is one of the fundamental precepts of the Erlang programming system, also developed at Ericsson. TIPC represents a more generalized version of the same behavioral design pattern. For an overview, please see: tipc_overview.md.

Errors

The TIPC module uses the error handling functions from library(socket) and therefore all the functions below may throw error(socket_error(Code, Message)) where Code is the lowercase version of the C-macro error code and Message is an atom describing the error in a human friendly format, depending on the current locale. See the socket library for details.

author
- Jeffrey Rosenwald (JeffRose@acm.org)
See also
- http://tipc.sf.net, http://www.erlang.org
Compatibility
- Linux only
 tipc_socket(-SocketId, +SocketType) is det
Creates a TIPC-domain socket of the type specified by SocketType, and unifies it to an identifier, SocketId.
Arguments:
SocketType- is one of the following atoms:
  • rdm - unnumbered, reliable datagram service,
  • dgram - unnumbered, unreliable datagram service,
  • seqpacket - numbered, reliable datagram service, and
  • stream - reliable, connection-oriented byte-stream service
 tipc_close_socket(+SocketId) is det
Closes the indicated socket, making SocketId invalid. In stream applications, sockets are closed by closing both stream handles returned by tipc_open_socket/3. There are two cases where tipc_close_socket/1 is used because there are no stream-handles:
Arguments:
SocketId- the socket identifier returned by tipc_socket/2 or tipc_accept/3.
 tipc_subscribe(+SocketId, +NameSeqAddress, +Timeout, +Filter, +UserHandle) is det
Subscribes to events related to a publisher that is bound to the multi-cast address specified in NameSeqAddress.

Timeout specifies the duration of the subscription in milliseconds. Specifying a Timeout of -1, provides for a subscription of infinite duration. Filter specifies the events of interest to the subscriber. It is an integer bit field where:

 tipc_open_socket(+SocketId, -InStream, -OutStream) is det
Opens two SWI-Prolog I/O-streams, one to deal with input from the socket and one with output to the socket. If tipc_bind/3 has been called on the socket, OutStream is useless and will not be created. After closing both InStream and OutStream, the socket itself is discarded.
 tipc_bind(+Socket, +Address, +ScopingOption) is det
Associates/disassociates a socket with the name/3 or name_seq/3 address specified in Address. It also registers/unregisters it in the topology server name table. This makes the address visible/invisible to the rest of the network according to the scope specified in ScopingOption. ScopingOption is a grounded term that is one of:
scope(Scope)
Where Scope is one of: `zone1, cluster1, or node1. Servers may bind to more than one address by making successive calls to tipc_bind/3, one for each address that it wishes to advertise. The server will receive traffic for all of them. A server may, for example, register one address with node scope, another with cluster scope, and a third with zone scope. A client may then limit the scope of its transmission by specifying the appropriate address.
no_scope(Scope)
Where Scope is as defined above. An application may target a specific address for removal from its collection of addresses by specifying the address and its scope. The scoping option, no_scope(all), may be used to unbind the socket from all of its registered addresses. This feature allows an application to gracefully exit from service. Because the socket remains open, the application may continue to service current transactions to completion. TIPC however, will not schedule any new work for the server instance. If no other servers are available, the work will be rejected or dropped according to the socket options specified by the client.

Connection-oriented, byte-stream services are implemented with this predicate combined with tipc_listen/2 and tipc_accept/3. Connectionless, datagram services may be implemented using tipc_receive/4.

Note that clients do not need to bind to any address. Its port-id is sufficient for this role. And server sockets (e.g. those that are bound to name/3 or name_seq/3, addresses) may not act as clients. That is, they may not originate connections from the socket using tipc_connect/2. Servers however, may originate datagrams from bound sockets using tipc_send/4. Please see the TIPC programmers's guide for other restrictions.

 tipc_listen(+Socket, +Backlog) is det
Listens for incoming requests for connections. Backlog indicates how many pending connection requests are allowed. Pending requests are requests that are not yet acknowledged using tipc_accept/3. If the indicated number is exceeded, the requesting client will be signalled that the service is currently not available. A suggested default value is 5.
 tipc_accept(+Socket, -Slave, -Peer) is det
Blocks on a server socket and waits for connection requests from clients. On success, it creates a new socket for the client and binds the identifier to Slave. Peer is bound to the TIPC address, port_id/2, of the client.
 tipc_connect(+Socket, +TIPC_address) is det
Provides a connection-oriented, client-interface to connect a socket to a given TIPC_address. After successful completion, tipc_open_socket/3 may be used to create I/O-Streams to the remote socket.
 tipc_get_name(+Socket, -TIPC_address) is det
Unifies TIPC_address with the port-id assigned to the socket.
 tipc_get_peer_name(+Socket, -TIPC_address) is det
Unifies TIPC_address with the port-id assigned to the socket that this socket is connected to.
 tipc_setopt(+Socket, +Option) is det
Sets options on the socket. Defined options are:
importance(+Priority)
Allow sockets to assign a priority to their traffic. Priority is one of : `low1 (default), `medium1, high1, or critical1.
src_droppable(+Boolean)
Allow TIPC to silently discard packets in congested situations, rather than queuing them for later transmission.
dest_droppable(+Boolean)
Allow TIPC to silently discard packets in congested situations, rather than returning them to the sender as undeliverable.
conn_timeout(+Seconds)
Specifies the time interval that tipc_connect/2 will use before abandoning a connection attempt. Default: 8.000 sec, Minimum 0.
 tipc_receive(+Socket, -Data, -From, +OptionList) is det
Waits for, and returns the next datagram. Like its UDP counterpart, the data are returned as a Prolog string object (see string_codes/2). From is an address structure of the form port_id/2, indicating the sender of the message.

Defined options are:

as(+Type)
Defines the returned term-type. Type is one of atom, codes or string (default).
nonblock
Poll the socket and return immediately. If a message is present, it is returned. If not, then an exception, error(socket_error(eagain, Message), _), will be thrown. Users are cautioned not to "spin" unnecessarily on non-blocking receives as they may prevent the system from servicing other background activities such as XPCE event dispatching.

The typical sequence to receive a connectionless TIPC datagram is:

receive :-
        tipc_socket(S, dgram),
        tipc_bind(S, name(18888, 10, 0), scope(zone)),
        repeat,
            tipc_receive(S, Data, From, [as(atom)]),
            format('Got ~q from ~q~n', [Data, From]),
            Data == quit,
        !, tipc_close_socket(S).
 tipc_send(+Socket, +Data, +To, +Options) is det
sends a TIPC datagram to one or more destinations. Like its UDP counterpart, Data is a string, atom or code-list providing the data to be sent. To is a name/3, name_seq/3, or port_id/2 address structure. See tipc_overview.txt, for more information on TIPC Address Structures. Options is currently unused.

A simple example to send a connectionless TIPC datagram is:

send(Message) :-
        tipc_socket(S, dgram),
        tipc_send(S, Message, name(18888, 10,0), []),
        tipc_close_socket(S).

Messages are delivered silently unless some form of congestion was encountered and the dest_droppable(false) option was issued on the sender's socket. In this case, the send succeeds but a notification in the form of an empty message is returned to the sender from the receiver, indicating some kind of delivery failure. The port-id of the receiver is returned in congestion conditions. A port_id(0,0), is returned if the destination address was invalid. Senders and receivers should beware of this possibility.

 tipc_event(+Data, -Event, -Residue) is det
Parses event notifications received from the topology server into Prolog structures. This predicate has been permanently removed.
 tipc_receive_subscr_event(+Socket, -Event) is semidet
Receives and parses event notifications received from the TIPC Topology Server.

Please note that this predicate is considered private. Its use in user programs is strongly discouraged. See the tipc-service predicates for alternatives.

Arguments:
Socket- is a TIPC socket that has been previously connected to the topology server using tipc_connect/2, and for which a subscription has been sent using tipc_subscribe/5, above.
Event- is the structure: tipc_event(-Action, -Subscr, -Found, -Port_id). On subscription timeout, the atom, `subscr_timeout1 is returned. Subscr is the name-sequence address of the original subscription.

Action is one of:

published
The socket specified by Port_id has been bound to the name_seq/3 address specified in Found.
withdrawn
The socket specified by Port_id has been unbound from the name_seq/3 address specified in Found. See the no_scope/1 option of tipc_bind/3.
  385:- multifile
  386    prolog:message/3.  387
  388prolog:message(error(socket_error(_Code, Message), _)) -->
  389    [ 'Socket error: ~w'-[Message] ].
 tipc_canonical_address(-CanonicalAddress, +PortId) is det
Translates a port_id/2 address into canonical TIPC form:
tipc_address(Zone, Cluster, Node, Reference)
It is provided for debugging an printing purposes only. The canonical address is not used for any other purpose.
  400integerAsU32(In, Out) :-
  401    nonvar(In),
  402    (   In < 0
  403    ->  Out is In + 0x100000000
  404    ;   Out is In
  405    ).
  406integerAsU32(In, Out) :-
  407    nonvar(Out),
  408    (   Out > 0x7fffffff
  409    ->  In is Out - 0x100000000
  410    ;   In is Out
  411    ).
  412
  413tipc_canonical_address(tipc_address(Z,C,N, Ref1), port_id(Ref, Node)) :-
  414    integerAsU32(Ref, Ref1),
  415    integerAsU32(Node, X),
  416    Z is (X >> 24) /\ 0xFF,
  417    C is (X >> 12) /\ 0xFFF,
  418    N is X /\ 0xFFF.
  419
  420user:portray(port_id(Ref, Node)) :-
  421    tipc_canonical_address(tipc_address(Z,C,N, Ref1), port_id(Ref, Node)),
  422    format('port_id(''<~w.~w.~w:~w>'')', [Z,C,N, Ref1]).
 tipc_service_exists(+Address, +Timeout) is semidet
 tipc_service_exists(+Address) is semidet
Interrogates the TIPC topology server to see if a service is available at an advertised Address.
Arguments:
Address- is one of: name(Type, Instance, Domain) or name_seq(Type, Lower, Upper). A name/3, address is translated to a name_seq/3, following, where Lower and Upper are assigned the value of Instance. Domain is unused and must be zero. A name_seq(Type, Lower, Upper) is a multi-cast address. This predicate succeeds if there is at least one service that would answer according to multi-cast addressing rules.
Timeout- is optional. It is a non-negative real number that specifies the amount of time in seconds to block and wait for a service to become available. Fractions of a second are also permissible.
  445tipc_address(name(T, I, 0), name_seq(T, I, I)).
  446tipc_address(name_seq(T, L, U), name_seq(T, L, U)).
  447tipc_address(mcast(T, L, U), name_seq(T, L, U)).
  448%
  449%
  450
  451tipc_service_exists(Address) :-
  452    tipc_service_exists(Address, 0.0).
  453
  454tipc_service_exists(Address, Timeout) :-
  455    tipc_address(Address, NameSeq),
  456    !,
  457    ITime is integer(Timeout * 1000),
  458    try_finally(tipc_socket(S, seqpacket),
  459                tipc_close_socket(S)),
  460    tipc_connect(S, name(1,1,0)),   % connect to the topology server
  461    tipc_subscribe(S, NameSeq, ITime, 2, "swipl"),
  462    repeat,
  463        tipc_receive_subscr_event(S, Data),
  464        (   Data == subscr_timeout
  465        ->  !, fail
  466        ;   Data = tipc_event(published, NameSeq, _FoundSeq, _Port_id)
  467        ),
  468    !.
 tipc_service_probe(?Address) is nondet
 tipc_service_probe(?Address, ?PortId) is nondet
Allows a user to discover the instance ranges and/or port-ids for a particular service.
Arguments:
Address- is a name_seq/3 address. The address type must be grounded.
PortId- is unified with the port-id for a specific name_sequence address.
  482try_finally(Setup, Cleanup) :-
  483    setup_call_cleanup(Setup, ( Solution = yes ; Solution = no ), Cleanup),
  484    Solution = yes.
  485
  486tipc_service_probe(Address) :-
  487    tipc_address(Address, name_seq(Type, Lower, Upper)),
  488    integer(Type),
  489    NameSeq = name_seq(Type, Lower, Upper),
  490    try_finally(tipc_socket(S, seqpacket), tipc_close_socket(S)),
  491    tipc_connect(S, name(1,1,0)),   % connect to the topology server
  492    tipc_subscribe(S, name_seq(Type, 0, 4294967295), 0, 2, "swipl"),  % look for everything
  493    sp_collect(S, Members),
  494    !,
  495    member([NameSeq, _], Members).
  496
  497tipc_service_probe(Address, PortId) :-
  498    tipc_address(Address, name_seq(Type, Lower, Upper)),
  499    integer(Type),
  500    NameSeq = name_seq(Type, Lower, Upper),
  501    try_finally(tipc_socket(S, seqpacket), tipc_close_socket(S)),
  502    tipc_connect(S, name(1,1,0)),   % connect to the topology server
  503    tipc_subscribe(S, name_seq(Type, 0, 4294967295), 0, 1, "swipl"),  % look for everything
  504    sp_collect(S, Members),
  505    !,
  506    member([NameSeq, PortId], Members).
  507
  508sp_collect(S, Members) :-
  509    findall([NameSeq, PortId],
  510        ( repeat,
  511          tipc_receive_subscr_event(S, Data),
  512          (   Data == subscr_timeout
  513              ->  !, fail
  514              ;   Data = tipc_event(published, _Service, NameSeq, PortId)
  515          )
  516        ), Members).
 tipc_service_port_monitor(+Addresses, :Goal) is det
 tipc_service_port_monitor(+Addresses, :Goal, ?Timeout) is det
Monitors a collection of worker threads that are bound to a list of Addresses. A single port monitor may be used to provide surveillance over workers that are providing a number of different services. For a given address type, discontiguous port ranges may be specified, but overlapping port ranges may not. Goal for example, may simply choose to broadcast the notification, thus delegating the notification event handling to others.
Arguments:
Addresses- is a list of name/3 or name_seq/3 addresses for the services to be monitored.
Goal- is a predicate that will be called when a worker's publication status changes. The Goal is called exactly once per event with its the last argument unified with the structure:
published(-NameSeq, -PortId)
when the worker binds its socket to the address.
withdrawn(-NameSeq, -PortId)
when the worker unbinds its socket from the address.
Timeout- is optional. It is one of:
Timeout
a non-negative real number that specifies the number of seconds that surveillance is to be continued.
infinite
causes the monitor to run forever in the current thread (e.g. never returns).
detached(-ThreadId)
causes the monitor to run forever as a separate thread. ThreadId is unified with the thread identifier of the monitor thread. This is useful when the monitor is required to provide continuous surveillance, while operating in the background.
  559spm_dispatch(_Goal, subscr_timeout) :- !.
  560spm_dispatch(Goal, tipc_event(Action, _Subscr, NameSeq, PortId)) :-
  561    Event =.. [Action, NameSeq, PortId],
  562    once(call(Goal, Event)), fail.
  563
  564:- meta_predicate
  565    tipc_service_port_monitor(+, 1),
  566    tipc_service_port_monitor(+, 1, +).  567
  568tipc_service_port_monitor(Address, Goal) :-
  569    tipc_service_port_monitor(Address, Goal, 0.0),
  570    !.
  571
  572tipc_service_port_monitor(Address, Goal, detached(ThreadId)) :-
  573    !,
  574    thread_create(tipc_service_port_monitor(Address, Goal, infinite),
  575                  ThreadId, [detached(true)]).
  576tipc_service_port_monitor(Address, Goal, infinite) :-
  577    tipc_service_port_monitor(Address, Goal, -0.001),
  578    !.
  579
  580tipc_service_port_monitor(Addresses, Goal, Timeout) :-
  581    maplist(tipc_address,Addresses, NameSeqs),
  582    !,
  583    ITime is integer(Timeout * 1000),
  584    try_finally(tipc_socket(S, seqpacket), tipc_close_socket(S)),
  585    tipc_connect(S, name(1,1,0)),   % connect to the topology server
  586    forall(member(NameSeq, NameSeqs),
  587           tipc_subscribe(S, NameSeq, ITime, 1, "swipl")),
  588    repeat,
  589        tipc_receive_subscr_event(S, Data),
  590        spm_dispatch(Goal, Data),
  591    !.
 tipc_initialize is semidet
causes the TIPC service and the TIPC stack to be initialized and made ready for service. An application must call this predicate as part of its initialization prior to any use of TIPC predicates. Please note the change of the API.
  600tipc_initialize :-
  601    with_mutex(tipc_mutex,
  602               forall(tipc_stack_initialize, true)).
  603
  604tipc_stack_initialize :-
  605    tipc_service_exists(name(1,1,0))