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authorGravatar Craig Tiller <ctiller@google.com>2015-07-06 11:36:20 -0700
committerGravatar Craig Tiller <ctiller@google.com>2015-07-06 11:36:20 -0700
commit043a0a83c52710ff3b23fe1a0425871456bb1ef2 (patch)
treebef3f99d68afb9590bca391c969c86265f2b96fd /src
parent377881204fe380d927086a4a86737c1a97f27ea0 (diff)
Add a short description of available resolution schemes
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@@ -42,3 +42,19 @@ 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.
+
+
+Naming for GRPC
+===============
+
+Names in GRPC are represented by a URI.
+
+The following schemes are currently supported:
+
+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