RTFXServer.h File Reference

#include <algorithm>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <deque>
#include <iostream>
#include <list>
#include <set>
#include <boost/bind.hpp>
#include <boost/shared_ptr.hpp>
#include <boost/enable_shared_from_this.hpp>
#include <boost/asio.hpp>
#include "RTFXDebug.h"
#include "RTFXPostOffice.h"
#include "RTFXSession.h"

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Classes
class	RTFX::RTFXServer
	The base server class for communication. More...

Namespaces
namespace	RTFX
	The namespace for the RTFX Library.

Typedefs
typedef boost::shared_ptr < RTFXSession >	RTFX::RTFXSessionPtr

Detailed Description

Author

Lesley Northam

October 28, 2011

How does the RTFXServer work?

• There is one PostOffice on the server
• Each Client (a Participant) creates a session and connects to the one PostOffice
• Each Client "owns" certain data (read-write access), and can "peek" at other data
  • The ProviderParticipant would be, for example, the Houdini plugin
    • any time a parameter changes in the Houdini graph, the affected data is sent (via Parcel) to the appropriate Mailbox in the PostOffice
    • the parcel is decoded into a list of RTFXObjects, which are converted to RTFXNative units and updated in the Mailbox
      • some of the parameters of each object may be externally controlled,