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Always turn off hyphenation; it makes +.\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. +.if n .ad l +.nh +.SH "NAME" +\&\fBXPAInfo: send short message to one or more \s-1XPA\s0 servers\fR +.SH "SYNOPSIS" +.IX Header "SYNOPSIS" +.Vb 1 +\& #include <xpa.h> +\& +\& int XPAInfo(XPA xpa, +\& char *template, char *paramlist, char *mode, +\& char **names, char **messages, int n); +.Ve +.SH "DESCRIPTION" +.IX Header "DESCRIPTION" +Send a short paramlist message to one or more \s-1XPA\s0 servers whose +class:name identifier matches the specified +template. +.PP +A +template +of the form \*(L"class1:name1\*(R" is sent to the +\&\s-1XPA\s0 name server, which returns a list of at most n matching \s-1XPA\s0 +servers. A connection is established with each of these servers and +the paramlist string is passed to the server as the data transfer +request is initiated. If an \s-1XPA\s0 struct is passed to the call, then the +persistent connections are updated as described above. Otherwise, +temporary connections are made to the servers (which will be closed +when the call completes). +.PP +The \fIXPAInfo()\fR routine does not send data from a buf to the \s-1XPA\s0 +servers. Only the paramlist is sent. The semantics of the paramlist +is not formalized, but at a minimum is should tell the server how to +get more information. For example, it might contain the class:name +of the \s-1XPA\s0 access point from which the server (acting as a client) +can obtain more info using XPAGet. +.PP +A string containing the class:name and ip:port of each server is +returned in the name array. If a given server returned an error or +the server callback sends a message back to the client, then the +message will be stored in the associated element of the messages +array. The returned message string will be of the form: +.PP +.Vb 1 +\& XPA$ERROR error\-message (class:name ip:port) +.Ve +.PP +or +.PP +.Vb 1 +\& XPA$MESSAGE message (class:name ip:port) +.Ve +.PP +The return value will contain the actual number of servers that were +processed. This value thus will hold the number of valid entries in +the names and messages arrays, and can be used to loop through these +arrays. In names and/or messages is \s-1NULL\s0, no information is passed back +in that array. +.PP +The following keywords are recognized: +.PP +.Vb 3 +\& key value default explanation +\& \-\-\-\-\-\- \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- +\& ack true/false true if false, don\*(Aqt wait for ack from server +.Ve +.PP +When ack is false, \fIXPAInfo()\fR will not wait for an error return from the \s-1XPA\s0 +server. This means, in effect, that XPAInfo will send its paramlist string +to the \s-1XPA\s0 server and then exit: no information will be sent from the server +to the client. This UDP-like behavior is essential to avoid race +conditions in cases where \s-1XPA\s0 servers are sending info messages to +other servers. If two servers try to send each other an info message +at the same time and then wait for an ack, a race condition will result and +one or both will time out. +.PP +\&\fBExample:\fR +.PP +.Vb 1 +\& (void)XPAInfo(NULL, "IMAGE", "ds9 image", NULL, NULL, NULL, 0); +.Ve +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.IX Header "SEE ALSO" +See xpa(n) for a list of \s-1XPA\s0 help pages |