Module transport

Connection-oriented communication channels.

The main entity of this module is the Transport trait, which provides an interface for establishing connections with other nodes, thereby negotiating any desired protocols. The rest of the module defines combinators for modifying a transport through composition with other transports or protocol upgrades.

Modules

• and_then
• choice
• dummy
• global_only
• map
• map_err
• memory
• timeout
  Transports with timeouts on the connection setup.
• upgrade
  Configuration of transport protocol upgrades.

Structs

• Boxed
  A Boxed transport is a Transport whose Dial, Listener and ListenerUpgrade futures are Boxed and only the Output type is captured in a type variable.
• DialOpts
  Options to customize the behaviour during dialing.
• ListenerId
  The ID of a single listener.
• MemoryTransport
  Transport that supports /memory/N multiaddresses.
• OptionalTransport
  Transport that is possibly disabled.
• OrTransport
  Struct returned by or_transport().
• Upgrade
  A custom upgrade on an Authenticated transport.

Enums

• PortUse
  The port use policy for a new connection.
• TransportError
  An error during dialing or listening on a Transport.
• TransportEvent
  Event produced by Transports.

Traits

• Transport
  A transport provides connection-oriented communication between two peers through ordered streams of data (i.e. connections).