Mailbox Server Plugin#

APIs for mailbox server.

Mailbox protocol is designed for devices that can't be online on the network all the time. The most common example for this is a sleepy end device.

Mailbox clients and the server can submit messages into the mailbox, which is stored in RAM on the mailbox server. Clients can then query the mailbox server for available messages.

The mailbox server will notify clients who submit messages when a message was delivered or when it couldn't be delivered due to an error.

Mailbox uses a plugin-configurable protocol endpoint, which is 15 by default.

The server can also configure the size of the mailbox (in number of packets, 25 by default) and the packet timeout, after which the server drops the message and notifies the source of the error.

The mailbox protocol uses standard data messages, so in case of sleepy end devices, it will use the indirect queue. This means that if a sleepy end device sends a request to a mailbox server, the end device should poll for the response.

Note

  • Mailbox is not available in MAC mode due to the lack of endpoints.

See mailbox-server.h and mailbox-server.c for source code.

Callbacks#

void
emberAfPluginMailboxServerMessageDeliveredCallback(EmberAfMailboxStatus status, EmberNodeId messageDestination, uint8_t tag)

Mailbox Server Message Delivered Callback.

Functions#

emberAfPluginMailboxServerAddMessage(EmberNodeId destination, uint8_t *message, EmberMessageLength messageLength, uint8_t tag, bool useSecurity)

Add a message to the mailbox server queue. The message is stored in the internal queue until the destination node queries the mailbox server node for messages or upon timeout.

Callbacks Documentation#

emberAfPluginMailboxServerMessageDeliveredCallback#

void emberAfPluginMailboxServerMessageDeliveredCallback (EmberAfMailboxStatus status, EmberNodeId messageDestination, uint8_t tag)

Mailbox Server Message Delivered Callback.

Parameters
[in]status

An EmberAfMailboxStatus value of:

[in]messageDestination

The node ID of the destination.

[in]tag

The tag value passed in the emberAfPluginMailboxServerAddMessage() API.

This callback is invoked at the server when a message submitted locally by the server was successfully delivered or when it timed-out.

See Also


Definition at line 110 of file /mnt/raid/workspaces/ws.r4wf6JzLX/overlay/gsdk/protocol/flex/mailbox/mailbox-server/mailbox-server.h

Function Documentation#

emberAfPluginMailboxServerAddMessage#

EmberAfMailboxStatus emberAfPluginMailboxServerAddMessage (EmberNodeId destination, uint8_t * message, EmberMessageLength messageLength, uint8_t tag, bool useSecurity)

Add a message to the mailbox server queue. The message is stored in the internal queue until the destination node queries the mailbox server node for messages or upon timeout.

Parameters
[in]destination

The node ID of the destination for this data message.

[in]message

A pointer to the message to be enqueued.

[in]messageLength

The length in bytes of the message to be enqueued.

[in]tag

A tag value which will be returned in the corresponding emberAfPluginMailboxServerMessageDeliveredCallback() callback. The application can use to match the callbacks with the call.

[in]useSecurity

Set it true if the data message should be sent to the server using security.

Returns

See Also


Definition at line 79 of file /mnt/raid/workspaces/ws.r4wf6JzLX/overlay/gsdk/protocol/flex/mailbox/mailbox-server/mailbox-server.h