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 4. Derivative works are permitted, but they must carry this notice 00027 in full and credit the original source. 00028 00029 00030 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 00031 00032 00033 @version Initial version, July 2004 00034 @author Kris 00035 00036 00037 *******************************************************************************/ 00038 00039 module mango.cluster.model.IChannel; 00040 00041 private import mango.io.model.IReader, 00042 mango.io.model.IWriter; 00043 00044 typedef ubyte[] ClusterContent; 00045 00046 /******************************************************************************* 00047 00048 A channel represents something akin to a publush/subscribe topic, 00049 or a radio station. These are used to segregate cluster operations 00050 into a set of groups, where each group is represented by a channel. 00051 Channel names are whatever you want then to be: use of dot notation 00052 has proved useful in the past. See Client.createChannel 00053 00054 *******************************************************************************/ 00055 00056 interface IChannel : IWritable, IReadable 00057 { 00058 /*********************************************************************** 00059 00060 Return the name of this channel. This is the name provided 00061 when the channel was constructed. 00062 00063 ***********************************************************************/ 00064 00065 char[] getName (); 00066 } 00067