hat-chatter 0.4.0.dev202012042345

Hat Chatter protocol

This library is part of Hat Open project - open-source framework of tools and libraries for developing applications used for remote monitoring, control and management of intelligent electronic devices such as IoT devices, PLCs, industrial automation or home automation systems.

Development of Hat Open and associated repositories is sponsored by Končar - Power Plant and Electric Traction Engineering Inc. (Končar KET - https://www.koncar-ket.hr).

For more information see:

• hat-chatter documentation - https://core.hat-open.com/docs/libraries/chatter.html

• Hat Core homepage - https://core.hat-open.com

• Hat Core git repository - https://github.com/hat-open/hat-core.git

Warning

This project is currently in state of active development. Features, functionality and API are unstable.

About

Chatter is communication protocol used for communication between Hat components. Some of key features:

• based on TCP (with optional TLS)

• binary serialization based on SBS encoding

• message based conversations (independent message exchange streams)

• full duplex communication

• unique message identification

• token passing

• closed connection detection