Concepts
This section defines the fundamental abstractions on which the Zenoh protocol is built. A solid understanding of these concepts is prerequisite to reading the protocol sections.
Summary
- Key Expressions
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A hierarchical, wildcard-capable naming scheme used to address resources.
- Entities
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The protocol roles an application session can host: Publisher, Subscriber, Queryable, Storage, and Token.
- Quality of Service
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Per-message QoS properties that govern delivery priority, reliability, and congestion behaviour.
- Value Encoding
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How the content type and optional schema of a value payload is described on the wire.