Module message

Dynamic dispatch oriented messaging system

This system allows:

• Generic communication between mailboxes.
• All message communication relies on at-most-once delivery guarantee.
• Messages are not guaranteed to be ordered, all message’s order is causal.

Structs

Answer

A Future returned when successfully “asking” a message using ChildRef::ask_anonymously and which resolves to a Result<Msg, ()> where the Msg is the message answered by the child (see the [msg!] macro for more information).

AnswerSender

Allows to respond to questions.

MessageHandler

Matches a Msg (as returned by BastionContext::recv or BastionContext::try_recv) with different types.

Msg

A message returned by BastionContext::recv or BastionContext::try_recv that should be passed to the [msg!] macro to try to match what its real type is.

Traits

Message

A trait that any message sent needs to implement (it is already automatically implemented but forces message to implement the following traits: Any, Send, Sync and Debug).