DVS::IServer Class Reference

Create a transport object to communicate with server, must be destroyed.

Parameters

shared_secret

The transport protocol shared secret string used to validate connections. It may be an empty string. If "SERVER_SECURITY_SECRET" is set as a server option shared_secret will be ignored.

Returns

ITransport* instance to transport object owned by Server instance

return the current number of pending and complete timesteps in the server

Simple count of the current state of the timesteps in the server

Parameters

num_pending	the number of pending timesteps not complete yet
num_complete	num_complete the number of complete timesteps

Returns

dvs_ret DVS_SERVER_NOT_STARTED or DVS_NONE

Get URI of this server.

Returns

URI this server was created with

Check to see if the server is running.

Currently this is a dumb check to see if the server was tried to start. If port listening failed this will call will not fail currently.

Returns

true if running/started

Set a specific option on the server, these are used during startup See See Server Options.

Current available options:
CACHE_URI: This will set the location and type of cache to store data to.

Parameters

key	Name of option to set
value	Value of option

Set a collection of options on the server. Overwrites previous options See. See Server Options.

Parameters

options

options to set on the server, see DVS::IServer::set_option() for options available

Start the server.

server_number is used by the DVS server, for each group of servers this number should be unique and monotonically increasing with no gaps (valid: 0, 1, 2 invalid: 0, 2)

local_ranks is used to determine how many clients will be connecting to this server

Parameters

server_number	The server number (zero based) for this server, should be unique for each server in this server group
local_ranks	Number of local ranks this server will handle

Returns

dvs_ret DVS_NONE on success, else error code

Startup a server manually without threads.

This method is for when a user wants to manually run their own server to more tightly control the execution and threading model. This call WILL block until the first timestep is received and will not return unless terminating() has been called from another thread or interrupt.

server_number is used by the DVS server, for each group of servers this number should be unique and monotonically increasing with no gaps (valid: 0, 1, 2 invalid: 0, 2)

local_ranks is used to determine how many clients will be connecting to this server

The normal call chain would be to call startup_unthreaded() and then loop calling update() until some end condition is met. Please see test_dvs_server.cpp for an example.

Parameters

server_number	The server number (zero based) for this server, should be unique for each server in this server group
local_ranks	Number of local ranks this server will handle

Returns

dvs_ret DVS_NONE on success, else error code

Call to begin terminating the server.

This method begins terminating the server when startup_unthreaded() is invoked. This will cause new updates sending new timesteps, to fail and exit early from any waiting calls on the server.

Important: This call is not needed if using the normal startup method as it will handle this for you.

Returns

dvs_ret DVS_NONE on success, DVS_SERVER_FAILED_READER_CREATE if the server wasn't started

Perform a server update.

This method performs a server update. This will: 1.) Perform a complete timestep check and flush complete timesteps to the cache 2.) Perform a check if any new delete_item calls should be processed 3.) Perform a check to see if the dataset definition needs to be updated

The number of pending timesteps from get_timestep_count() will not update unless this is called.

Important: This is not needed to be called if using the normal startup() procedure and should only be used when manually running the server with startup_unthreaded. This must be called periodically for the server to function properly.

Returns

dvs_ret DVS_NONE on success