Changes between Version 24 and Version 25 of Notifications

Timestamp:

Nov 3, 2009, 12:31:26 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

romw

Comment:

Describe the BOINC Client Feed Stream

Notifications

@@ -70 +70 @@
 || application_only || false || Feed is used by an application and should not be shown in BOINC Manager or the BOINC Screen saver. ||
 
+== Notification Flag Supported ==
+Clients that support the BOINC Notification System should include the following flag:
+{{{
+<notifications_supported />
+}}}
+
+When the BOINC Server scheduler sees this flag it’ll include extra information in the scheduler reply that is to be included in the BOINC Client Feed stream.
+
+== BOINC Client Feed Stream ==
+The BOINC Client feed stream is a special in memory RSS feed the BOINC Client software maintains for various user interface components.
+
+BOINC Server scheduler replies can add items to the feed stream as well as the client itself.
+
 == Server Scheduler ==
 The server scheduler is responsible for aggregating the various pieces of information about feeds and pushes the result to the client as part of the scheduler reply.  A similar process is used for the GUI URLs.
@@ -79 +92 @@
 
 If an empty result set is returned by the database, then pass the contents of feeds.xml unmodified.
-
-=== Notification Supported Flag ===
-When the scheduler receives the notification flag it should add any user messages to the BOINC client feed by including a channel and a new item for each user message.
-
-Notification flag:
-{{{
-<notifications_supported />
-}}}
 
 === Scheduler Reply ===
@@ -161 +166 @@
 
 == BOINC Core Client ==
-=== Scheduler Request ===
-Add the notification flag to the request protocol:
-
-{{{
-<notifications_supported />
-}}}
 
 === GUI RPCs ===
@@ -191 +190 @@
 
 '''Notes''':
- * If both project_url and feed_url are empty, the BOINC client stream is returned.
+ * If both project_url and feed_url are empty, the BOINC Client Feed stream is returned.
  * Requests for private feeds should return an error.
  * This RPC should not require authentication.