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-= nng_req(7)
-//
-// Copyright 2018 Staysail Systems, Inc. <info@staysail.tech>
-// Copyright 2018 Capitar IT Group BV <info@capitar.com>
-//
-// This document is supplied under the terms of the MIT License, a
-// copy of which should be located in the distribution where this
-// file was obtained (LICENSE.txt). A copy of the license may also be
-// found online at https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
-//
-
-== NAME
-
-nng_req - request protocol
-
-== SYNOPSIS
-
-[source,c]
-----------
-#include <nng/protocol/reqrep0/req.h>
-
-int nng_req0_open(nng_socket *s);
-----------
-
-== DESCRIPTION
-
-The _nng_req_ protocol is one half of a request/reply pattern.
-In this pattern, a requester sends a message to one replier, who
-is expected to reply. The request is resent if no reply arrives,
-until a reply is received or the request times out.
-
-TIP: This protocol is useful in setting up RPC-like services. It
-is also "reliable", in that a the requester will keep retrying until
-a reply is received.
-
-NOTE: Because requests are resent, it is important that they be idempotent
-to ensure predictable and repeatable behavior even in the face of duplicated
-requests, which can occur (for example if a reply message is lost for
-some reason.)
-
-The requester generally only has one outstanding request at a time unless
-in "raw" mode (via `NNG_OPT_RAW`), and it will generally attempt to spread
-work requests to different peer repliers.
-
-TIP: This property, when combined with a <<nng_device#,device>> can
-help provide a degree of load-balancing.
-
-The _nng_req_ protocol is the requester side, and the
-<<nng_rep#,nng_rep(7)>> protocol is the replier side.
-
-=== Socket Operations
-
-The `nng_req0_open()` call creates a requester socket. This socket
-may be used to send messages (requests), and then to receive replies. Generally
-a reply can only be received after sending a request. (Attempts to receive
-a message will result in `NNG_ESTATE` if there is no outstanding request.)
-
-Requests may be canceled by sending a different request. This will
-cause the requester to discard any reply from the earlier request,
-but it will not stop a replier
-from processing a request it has already received or terminate a request
-that has already been placed on the wire.
-
-Attempts to receive on a socket with no outstanding requests will result
-in `NNG_ESTATE`.
-
-Raw mode sockets (set with `NNG_OPT_RAW`) ignore all these restrictions.
-
-=== Protocol Versions
-
-Only version 0 of this protocol is supported. (At the time of writing,
-no other versions of this protocol have been defined.)
-
-=== Protocol Options
-
-The following protocol-specific options are available.
-
-`NNG_OPT_REQ_RESENDTIME`::
-
- This read/write option is a duration (32-bit unsigned integer) representing
- a relative number of milliseconds.
- When a new request is started, a timer of this duration is also started.
- If no reply is received before this timer expires, then the request will
- be resent. (Requests are also automatically resent if the peer to whom
- the original request was sent disconnects, or if a peer becomes available
- while the requester is waiting for an available peer.)
-
-`NNG_OPT_MAXTTL`::
-
- Maximum time-to-live. This option is an integer value
- between 0 and 255,
- inclusive, and is the maximum number of "hops" that a message may
- pass through until it is discarded. The default value is 8. A value
- of 0 may be used to disable the loop protection, allowing an infinite
- number of hops.
-
-=== Protocol Headers
-
-This protocol uses a _backtrace_ in the header. This
-form uses a "stack" of 32-bit big-endian identifiers. There *must* be
-at least one identifier, the __request ID__, which will be the last
-element in the array, and *must* have the most significant bit set.
-
-There may be additional __peer ID__s preceeding the request ID. These
-will be distinguishable from the request ID by having their most
-significant bit clear.
-
-When a request message is received by a forwarding node (see
-<<nng_device#,nng_device(3)>>), the forwarding node prepends a
-32-bit peer ID (which *must* have the most significant bit clear),
-which is the forwarder's way of identifying the directly connected
-peer from which it received the message. (This peer ID, except for the
-most significant bit, has meaning only to the forwarding node itself.)
-
-It may help to think of prepending a peer ID as "pushing" a peer ID onto the
-front of the stack of headers for the message. (It will use the peer ID
-it popped from the front to determine the next intermediate destination
-for the reply.)
-
-When a reply message is created, it is created using the same headers
-that the request contained.
-
-A forwarding node can "pop" the peer ID it originally pushed on the
-message, stripping it from the front of the message as it does so.
-
-When the reply finally arrives back at the initiating requestor, it
-should have only a single element in the message, which will be the
-request ID it originally used for the request.
-
-// TODO: Insert reference to RFC.
-
-== SEE ALSO
-
-<<nng_device(3)#,nng_device(3)>>,
-<<nng#,nng(7)>>,
-<<nng_rep#,nng_rep(7)>>