Rivendell Notification Protocol
Fred
Gleason
fredg@paravelsystems.com
Overview
This defines the IP protocol used to notify Rivendell components of
changes to the state of database objects. Messages are send by means
of multicast UDP packets to port 20539.
The format of a message is as follows:
NOTIFY obj-type
action
id
obj-type
The object type to which the message pertains.
action
The action being reported. The following actions are defined:
ADD
The referenced object has just been added to the database.
DELETE
The referenced object has just been deleted from the database.
MODIFY
The reference object has just been modified in the database.
id
Unique id of the object.
Object Types
The following object types are defined:
Carts
CART
Cart Fields
FieldValue
obj-typeCART
idCart number
typeUnsigned Integer
Logs
LOG
Log Fields
FieldValue
obj-typeLOG
idLog name
typeString