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authorGravatar Craig Tiller <ctiller@google.com>2015-07-20 10:31:12 -0700
committerGravatar Craig Tiller <ctiller@google.com>2015-07-20 10:31:12 -0700
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Merge github.com:grpc/grpc into sometimes-its-good-just-to-check-in-with-each-other
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
Client Configuration Support for GRPC
=====================================
-This library provides high level configuration machinery to construct client
+This library provides high level configuration machinery to construct client
channels and load balance between them.
Each grpc_channel is created with a grpc_resolver. It is the resolver's duty
@@ -22,32 +22,33 @@ Load Balancing
--------------
Load balancing configuration is provided by a grpc_lb_policy object, stored as
-part of grpc_client_config.
+part of grpc_client_config.
-A load balancing policies primary job is to pick a target server given only the
-initial metadata for a request. It does this by providing a grpc_subchannel
+The primary job of the load balancing policies is to pick a target server given only the
+initial metadata for a request. It does this by providing a grpc_subchannel
object to the owning channel.
Sub-Channels
------------
-A sub-channel provides a connection to a server for a client channel. It has a
-connectivity state like a regular channel, and so can be connected or
-disconnected. This connectivity state can be used to inform load balancing
+A sub-channel provides a connection to a server for a client channel. It has a
+connectivity state like a regular channel, and so can be connected or
+disconnected. This connectivity state can be used to inform load balancing
decisions (for example, by avoiding disconnected backends).
Configured sub-channels are fully setup to participate in the grpc data plane.
Their behavior is specified by a set of grpc channel filters defined at their
-construction. To customize this behavior, resolvers build grpc_subchannel_factory
-objects, which use the decorator pattern to customize construction arguments for
-concrete grpc_subchannel instances.
+construction. To customize this behavior, resolvers build
+grpc_subchannel_factory objects, which use the decorator pattern to customize
+construction arguments for concrete grpc_subchannel instances.
Naming for GRPC
===============
-Names in GRPC are represented by a URI.
+Names in GRPC are represented by a URI (as defined in
+[RFC 3986](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986)).
The following schemes are currently supported:
@@ -55,6 +56,7 @@ dns:///host:port - dns schemes are currently supported so long as authority is
empty (authority based dns resolution is expected in a future
release)
-unix:path - the unix scheme is used to create and connect to unix domain
- sockets - the authority must be empty, and the path represents
- the absolute or relative path to the desired socket
+unix:path - the unix scheme is used to create and connect to unix domain
+ sockets - the authority must be empty, and the path
+ represents the absolute or relative path to the desired
+ socket