Message BaseOverlayMessage

File: Common/CommonMessages.msg

Base class for all messages handled by overlay modules

Author: Bernhard Heep

See also: ChordMessage

Inheritance diagram:

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Known subclasses:

BaseRouteMessage (no description)
BaseAppDataMessage (no description)
BaseRpcMessage

A basic Remote-Procedure-Call message used for calls and return values

BootstrapLookupMessage

Internal message for the BootstrapList lookup listener

GameAPIMessage (no description)
ChordMessage

Base message for all messages used by Chord

GiaMessage

Main GIA-Message definition

Author: Robert Palmer

PastryMessage

Base message for all messages used by Pastry

KademliaRoutingInfoMessage

Message to inform node about potential next hops during recursive routing

VastMessage

Base message for all messages used by Vast JOIN_REQUEST, ENCLOSING_NEIGHBORS_REQUEST, PING, PONG

Fields:

Name Type Description
type int

message type

signaling bool

true if this is a signaling message

Source code:

message BaseOverlayMessage {
  fields:
    int type enum(BaseOverlayMessageType) = OVERLAYSIGNALING;  // message type
    bool signaling = true;  // true if this is a signaling message
};