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LISTENERS: Every component participating in a Bit Repository.
MESSAGES: IdentifyPillarFor<Op>Request.
NAMING: "type:<repository-id>"
DISCUSSION: This topic is the abstraction layer, that makes it possible to use the protocol with no knowledge of other participants. The destination is used to send the initial 'Identify...' requests used to start a conversation. See Message flow documentation for details.
IMPLEMENTATION: The topic is defined in the RepositorySettings.
ALTERNATIVES:
- The collection repository topic might be used for other message types. It might in fact be used for all the messages in a collectionrepository, if the separation recommended here isn't necessary.
- It is possible to define dedicated topics for broadcasting pillar, audittrail and status specific requests in the RepositorySettings. This can be used to optimize the Identify request broadcast, so the requests are only distributed to the relevant components.
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LISTENERS: One specific pillar
MESSAGES: <Op>Request
NAMING: "type:<collection<repository-id>.<pillar-id>"
DISCUSSION: This topic is the interface for requesting operations on a pillar.
IMPLEMENTATION: Pillar topics are identified through the IdentifyPillarFor<Op>Responses returned as a result of a IdentifyPillarFor<Op>Request.
GENERATION: These topics are generated for each pillar by the message bus administrator when a new Collection repository is setup.
ALTERNATIVES: It is protocol-safe to make a different choice for making pillar destinations on a per-pillar basis. This can be replaced with a queue or a temporary queue, and the naming is quite optional. A topic seems appropriate, since it will not have persistent messages lying around if the pillar is not available at the time of request. However, there could also be advantages of a queue, since you could replicate you pillar instances and only one would receive the message. It may be considered desirable to use temporary queues, so the queue name will never be reused in a later operation.
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LISTENERS: Clients
MESSAGE: IdentifyPillarFor<Op>Response, <Op>Response, <Op>Complete
NAMING: "type:<collection<repository-id>.client-name.unique-client-identifier"
DISCUSSION: This queue is intended to receive replies to requests sent to the clients. The reference maintains a conversation state while running, which isen't shared between client, nor persisted. This means replies sent to other clients or previous instances of a client are irrelevant. Thus a client is only interested in replies to it's own responses.
IMPLEMENTATION: A client initiates a temporary queue on startup with a unique identifier.
ALTERNATIVES: It is protocol-safe to make a different choice for making client destinations on a per-client basis. This can be replaced with a queue or a (durable shared) topic, and the naming is quite optional. In case of stateless client, clients with persisted state or shared state this might be relevant.
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repository alarm durable topic
LISTENERS: One specific client
MESSAGE: Alarms
NAMING: "type:<collection<repository-id>.alarms"
DISCUSSION: This queue is intended to receive alarms that are reported during a SLA-specific conversation.
IMPLEMENTATION: All participants in the protocol are given the alarm destination id in it's configuration, and send alarms to this topic.
ALTERNATIVES: The Collection repository topic could be used instead.