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author | David Robillard <d@drobilla.net> | 2010-10-17 01:08:23 +0000 |
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committer | David Robillard <d@drobilla.net> | 2010-10-17 01:08:23 +0000 |
commit | 591d09e1923164220485e843ae3161090d5dc0ec (patch) | |
tree | 1a1adcd5e0e37e28b2570fee5ac47508ca403000 /ext/message.lv2/message.ttl | |
parent | 1bde548b3c2c0ae5ce5a8f849ada96c2e8735217 (diff) | |
download | lv2-591d09e1923164220485e843ae3161090d5dc0ec.tar.xz |
Create new Message extension, and remove message type definition from Atom extension.
Clean up Atom extension and define more struct types in header.
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diff --git a/ext/message.lv2/message.ttl b/ext/message.lv2/message.ttl new file mode 100644 index 0000000..03072f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/ext/message.lv2/message.ttl @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +# LV2 Message Extension +# Copyright (C) 2007-2010 David Robillard <d@drobilla.net> +# +# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a +# copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), +# to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation +# the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, +# and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the +# Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: +# +# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included +# in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. +# +# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR +# IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, +# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL +# THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR +# OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, +# ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR +# OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. + +@prefix message: <http://lv2plug.in/ns/ext/message#> . +@prefix atom: <http://lv2plug.in/ns/ext/atom#> . +@prefix doap: <http://usefulinc.com/ns/doap#> . +@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> . +@prefix lv2: <http://lv2plug.in/ns/lv2core#> . +@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> . +@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> . +@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema> . + +<http://lv2plug.in/ns/ext/message> + a lv2:Specification ; + doap:name "LV2 Message" ; + doap:maintainer [ + a foaf:Person ; + foaf:name "David Robillard" ; + foaf:homepage <http://drobilla.net/> ; + rdfs:seeAlso <http://drobilla.net/drobilla.rdf> + ] ; + rdfs:comment """ +This extension defines the format for "messages" which can be used to +dynamically control an LV2 plugin instance at runtime. Messages are useful +for any kind of plugin control that does not fit well with control ports. +Plugins can both receive and send messages (and thus send messages to each +other) via any mechanism. + +This extension requires the host to support the <a +href="http://lv2plug.in/ns/ext/uri-map">LV2 URI Map</a> extension, and the +<a href="http://lv2plug.in/ns/ext/atom">LV2 Atom</a> extension. +""" . + + +message:MessageType a rdfs:Class ; + rdfs:label "LV2 Message Type" ; + rdfs:comment """ +Base class for all types of LV2 Message. + +A type of message, which must be a resource (i.e. have a URI). This URI +is used as the selector component of a Message and is used by receivers +to interpret the meaning of messages (e.g. which components are present). +""" . + +message:Message a atom:AtomType ; + rdfs:label "Message" ; + rdfs:comment """ +A message is a communication from one component to another. Messages consist +of a selector URI, and a key/value dictionary. Keys in the dictionary are +URI mapped integers, and values are Atoms. The selector URI dictates how +the message is to be interpreted (e.g. the selector can be used as a "verb" +to build commands). + +Messages are simple to serialise in many different formats (e.g. any RDF +serialisation including LV2 Turtle files, JSON, XML, etc) making network +transparency and persistence simple, assuming the implementation can +serialise Atoms. + +Because all messages have a standard format, plugins and hosts can store, +communicate, or otherwise work with messages even if they do not understand +that particular message's selector. + +In memory, a Message is simply a uint32_t selector (a URI mapped integer) +followed by an atom:Blank. +""" . |