libepc-1.0

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Description:

The Easy Publish and Consume library (libepc) provides an easy method to publish data using HTTPS, announce that information via DNS-SD, find that information and finally consume it.

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Content:

Namespaces:

• Epc

Classes:

• AuthContext
• Consumer - Public fields of the Consumer class.
• Contents
• Dispatcher - Public fields of the Dispatcher class.
• Publisher - Public fields of the Publisher class.
• ServiceInfo
• ServiceMonitor - Public fields of the ServiceMonitor class.

Enums:

• AddressFamily - The address family to use for contacting network services.
• AuthFlags - These flags specify the authentication behaviour of an Publisher.
• CollisionHandling - Various strategies for handling service name collisions.
• Protocol - The transport protocols supported by libepc.

Constants:

• public const string SERVICE_TYPE_HTTP
• public const string SERVICE_TYPE_HTTPS

Delegates:

• public delegate bool AuthHandler (AuthContext context, string username)
  Functions implementing this callback shall return true when the credentials provided by the authentication request grant access to the resource described by context.
• public delegate unowned Contents ContentsHandler (Publisher publisher, string key)
  This callback is used to generate custom contents published with the add_handler function.
• public delegate bool ContentsReadFunc (Contents contents, void* buffer, size_t length)
  This callback is used to retrieve the next chunk of data for a streaming contents buffer created with stream_read.

Methods:

• public unowned EnumClass address_family_get_class ()
• public unowned FlagsClass auth_flags_get_class ()
• public unowned string auth_flags_to_string (AuthFlags value)
• public unowned EnumClass collision_handling_get_class ()
• public unowned string collision_handling_to_string (CollisionHandling value)
• public Quark http_error_quark ()
• public unowned string protocol_build_uri (Protocol protocol, string hostname, uint16 port, string path)
• public Protocol protocol_from_name (string name, Protocol fallback)
• public unowned EnumClass protocol_get_class ()
• public unowned string protocol_get_service_type (Protocol protocol)
• public unowned string protocol_get_uri_scheme (Protocol protocol)
• public unowned string protocol_to_string (Protocol value)
• public unowned string service_type_get_base (string type)
• public Protocol service_type_get_protocol (string service_type)
• public unowned string service_type_list_supported (string application)
• public unowned string service_type_new (Protocol protocol, string application)