00001 /******************************************************************************* 00002 00003 @file IChannel.d 00004 00005 Copyright (C) 2004 Kris Bell 00006 00007 This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied 00008 warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for damages 00009 of any kind arising from the use of this software. 00010 00011 Permission is hereby granted to anyone to use this software for any 00012 purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and/or 00013 redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions: 00014 00015 1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must 00016 not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this 00017 software in a product, an acknowledgment within documentation of 00018 said product would be appreciated but is not required. 00019 00020 2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must 00021 not be misrepresented as being the original software. 00022 00023 3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any distribution 00024 of the source. 00025 00026 00027 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 00028 00029 00030 @version Initial version, July 2004 00031 @author Kris 00032 00033 00034 *******************************************************************************/ 00035 00036 module mango.cluster.model.IChannel; 00037 00038 private import mango.io.model.IReader, 00039 mango.io.model.IWriter; 00040 00041 typedef ubyte[] ClusterContent; 00042 00043 /******************************************************************************* 00044 00045 A channel represents something akin to a publush/subscribe topic, 00046 or a radio station. These are used to segregate cluster operations 00047 into a set of groups, where each group is represented by a channel. 00048 Channel names are whatever you want then to be: use of dot notation 00049 has proved useful in the past. See Client.createChannel 00050 00051 *******************************************************************************/ 00052 00053 interface IChannel : IWritable, IReadable 00054 { 00055 /*********************************************************************** 00056 00057 Return the name of this channel. This is the name provided 00058 when the channel was constructed. 00059 00060 ***********************************************************************/ 00061 00062 char[] getName (); 00063 } 00064