TopicSubRequest¶

Purpose¶

Subscription request for a pub/sub topic.

Type¶

Reception:

TopicSubRequestV1

Record with fields:

topic: TopicIdentity

Pub/sub topic identity

scope: RoutingScope

Whether the subscription request is local-only or should be also sent to the network

Triggers:

TopicSubResponseV1

Result

Behavior¶

If the topic already exists in the RoutingTable, the EngineIdentity of the requesting engine is added to the RoutingTable, and a TopicSubResponse is returned with a success result.

Otherwise, if the topic does not exist yet:

when the scope is LocalOnly, an error is returned
when the scope is Any, the Router sends a SubscribeRequest to PubSub

Message flow¶

sequenceDiagram

%% --8<-- [start:sequence]
Any Local Engine ->>+ Router: TopicCreateRequest
Router ->>+ PubSub: SubscribeRequest
PubSub -->>- Router: SubscribeResponse
Router -->>- Any Local Engine: TopicCreateResponse
%% --8<-- [end:sequence]