Idl login
There are several different standards for binary components, typically COTS or Commercial Off The Shelf, and how a client communicates with the binary component can vary though traditionally some version of Remote Procedure Call or RPC is used. IDL is normally used with binary interfaces and the IDL language file describes the data types used in the binary interface. The goal of an IDL is to describe the interface for some service so that clients wanting to use the service will know what methods and properties, the interface, the service provides. IDL is an acronym for Interface Definition Language of which there are several variations depending on the vendor or standard group that defined the language. I've also used third party products with MS operating systems, both DCE and ONC RPC. Microsoft does use IDL (I think they have a MIDL compiler) for COM stuff.
IDL LOGIN CODE
This allows the IDL compiler to build the function client and server stub functions for compiling and linking with your client and server code to get RPC working. The "meat" of it is inside the interface section where the prototype is shown. The actual IDL may look like: [ uuid(f9f6be21-fd32-5577-8f2d-0800132bd567),Įndpoint("ncadg_ip_udp:", "dds:")Īll that information at the top (for example, uuid or endpoint) is basically networking information used for connecting client and server. The actual details may differ a little but that explanation should be good enough for a conceptual overview. The client stub then unpacks that and passes it back to main. The real function then does what it needs to and returns to the server stub which can package up the return information (both return code and any or variables) and pass it back to the client stub. The server's stub receives the information, unpacks it and passes it to the real function. In the server, there's a 'listener' process that will receive that information and pass it to the server. This can be the same machine or a different machine, it doesn't really matter - one of the advantages of RPC is to be able to move servers around at will. In this example, instead of calling function in the same program, main calls a client stub function (with the same prototype as function) which is responsible for packaging up the information and getting it across the wire to another process, via the comms channel. It's very similar to a function prototype in C but the end result is slightly different, such as in the following graphic: +-+ RPC needs to create stub functions for the client and a server, using the IDL information.
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There have been many variations of this such as Sun RPC, ONC RPC, DCE RPC and so on.īasically, you use an IDL to specify the interface between client and server so that the RPC mechanism can create the code stubs required to call functions across the network. An interface definition language (IDL) is used to set up communications between clients and servers in remote procedure calls (RPC).