GNUnet is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
- by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your
+ by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your
option) any later version.
GNUnet is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
/**
- * Start a service.
+ * Handle for interacting with ARM.
+ */
+struct GNUNET_ARM_Handle;
+
+
+/**
+ * Setup a context for communicating with ARM. Note that this
+ * can be done even if the ARM service is not yet running.
*
- * @param service_name name of the service
* @param cfg configuration to use (needed to contact ARM;
* the ARM service may internally use a different
* configuration to determine how to start the service).
- * @param sched scheduler to use
+ * @param service service that *this* process is implementing/providing, can be NULL
+ * @return context to use for further ARM operations, NULL on error
+ */
+struct GNUNET_ARM_Handle *
+GNUNET_ARM_connect (const struct GNUNET_CONFIGURATION_Handle *cfg,
+ const char *service);
+
+
+/**
+ * Disconnect from the ARM service.
+ *
+ * @param h the handle that was being used
+ */
+void
+GNUNET_ARM_disconnect (struct GNUNET_ARM_Handle *h);
+
+
+/**
+ * Start a service. Note that this function merely asks ARM to start
+ * the service and that ARM merely confirms that it forked the
+ * respective process. The specified callback may thus return before
+ * the service has started to listen on the server socket and it may
+ * also be that the service has crashed in the meantime. Clients
+ * should repeatedly try to connect to the service at the respective
+ * port (with some delays in between) before assuming that the service
+ * actually failed to start. Note that if an error is returned to the
+ * callback, clients obviously should not bother with trying to
+ * contact the service.
+ *
+ * @param h handle to ARM
+ * @param service_name name of the service
* @param timeout how long to wait before failing for good
* @param cb callback to invoke when service is ready
* @param cb_cls closure for callback
*/
void
-GNUNET_ARM_start_service (const char *service_name,
- struct GNUNET_CONFIGURATION_Handle *cfg,
- struct GNUNET_SCHEDULER_Handle *sched,
+GNUNET_ARM_start_service (struct GNUNET_ARM_Handle *h, const char *service_name,
struct GNUNET_TIME_Relative timeout,
GNUNET_ARM_Callback cb, void *cb_cls);
/**
- * Stop a service.
+ * Stop a service. Note that the callback is invoked as soon
+ * as ARM confirms that it will ask the service to terminate.
+ * The actual termination may still take some time.
*
+ * @param h handle to ARM
* @param service_name name of the service
- * @param cfg configuration to use (needed to contact ARM;
- * the ARM service may internally use a different
- * configuration to determine how to start the service).
- * @param sched scheduler to use
* @param timeout how long to wait before failing for good
* @param cb callback to invoke when service is ready
* @param cb_cls closure for callback
*/
void
-GNUNET_ARM_stop_service (const char *service_name,
- struct GNUNET_CONFIGURATION_Handle *cfg,
- struct GNUNET_SCHEDULER_Handle *sched,
+GNUNET_ARM_stop_service (struct GNUNET_ARM_Handle *h, const char *service_name,
struct GNUNET_TIME_Relative timeout,
GNUNET_ARM_Callback cb, void *cb_cls);