Module message 

The message type. Is the base type for all messages in the request-response protocol

Structs

RequestMessage

A request message, which includes the requester’s public key, the request’s signature, a timestamp, and the request itself

ResponseMessage

A response message, which includes the hash of the request we’re responding to and the response itself.

Enums

Message

The outer message type for the request-response protocol. Can either be a request or a response

MessageFrame

A serialized Message with only its framing parsed: the type byte, and for a response the request hash. The receiver uses it to route a response to its waiters, or drop it, without deserializing the body

Constants

REQUEST_TAG 🔒

The type byte that prefixes a serialized Message::Request

RESPONSE_TAG 🔒

The type byte that prefixes a serialized Message::Response

Functions

read_length_prefixed 🔒

A helper function to read a length-prefixed value from a reader

read_to_end 🔒

A helper function to read to the end of the reader

split_request_hash 🔒

Split the request hash prefix off a serialized ResponseMessage

write_length_prefixed 🔒

A helper function to write a length-prefixed value to a writer