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SILC VCard Library
SILC VCard Interface
SILC Crypto Library
Introduction to SILC RNG
SILC RNG Interface
SILC Cipher API
SILC PKCS API
SILC Public Key API
SILC PKCS #1 API
SILC Hash Interface
SILC HMAC Interface
SILC Client Library
Using SILC Client Library Tutorial
Arguments for command_reply Client Operation
SilcStatus Error Arguments in command_reply Client Operation
Arguments for notify Client Operation
Unicode and UTF-8 Strings in Client Library
Client Library Interface Reference
Client Entry Interface Reference
SILC Math Library
SILC MP Interface
SILC Math Interface
SILC Application Utility Library
SILC Application Utilities
SILC ID Cache Interface
SILC Key Repository Library
SILC SKR Interface
SILC ASN.1 Library
SILC ASN.1 Interface
SILC BER interface
SILC Key Exchange Library
SILC SKE Interface
SILC Connection Authentication Interface
SILC SFTP Library
SILC SFTP Interface
SFTP Filesystems Interface
SILC Core Library
SILC Authentication Interface
SILC Message Interface
SILC Channel Interface
SILC Command Interface
SILC Notify Interface
SILC Status Types
SILC Modes
SILC ID Interface
SILC Argument Interface
SILC Attributes Interface
Packet Engine Interface
SILC Public Key Payload Interface
SILC Utility Library
Basic Types and Definitions
Data Buffer Interface
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Hash Table Interface
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Thread Interface
Mutual Exclusion Lock Interface
Condition Variable Interface
Atomic Operations Interface
Network (TCP and UDP) Interface
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File Descriptor Stream Interface
File Utility Functions
String Utility Interface
Snprintf Interface
UTF-8 String Interface
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MIME Interface
Time Utility Functions
Logging Interface
Config File Interface
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SilcNotifyType Arguments
The SILC Client Library 'notify' client operation (which is part of the SilcClientOperation callback functions) returns different kind of notifications from the SILC server to the SILC client. The 'notify' client operation implementation has a variable argument list to deliver SilcNotifyType type specific arguments to the application. This document describes these arguments for all notify types to help SILC client software developers to handle the incoming notifications.
notify Client Library operation
The 'notify' client operation callback function prototype is as follows:
`void (*notify)(SilcClient client, SilcClientConnection conn, SilcNotifyType type, ...);`
The first argument 'client' is the SILC Client Library context, the `conn' is the context for the connection to the remote server, and the `type' is the notify type enumeration sent by the server. Rest of the arguments are `type' specific and implementation should handle them by the SilcNotifyType for example in a `switch` statement. The notify types are defined in lib/silccore/silcnotify.h header file. A short example:
`switch(type)
{
case SILC_NOTIFY_TYPE_NONE:
...
break;
case SILC_NOTIFY_TYPE_INVITE:
...
break;
case SILC_NOTIFY_TYPE_JOIN:
...
break;
...
}`
Arguments
The following table describes all notify types and arguments that the client library sends in the 'notify' client operation to the application. By default all arguments that the library sends to application are valid pointers. However, it is possible that some pointers may be NULL. If this is the case it is separately mentioned that the argument may be NULL. In this case application must ignore that argument. The SilcNotifyType arguments per notify type is as follows:

Name | Description | Variable Arguments
SILC_NOTIFY_TYPE_NONE | A message from server that usually does not include any critical information. Application may ignore this or display it for the user. The 'message' argument may be NULL. | char *message
SILC_NOTIFY_TYPE_INVITE | Sent to the client if the user is invited on a channel. The 'channel argument may be NULL but the `channel_name' is always provided. | SilcChannelEntry channel, char *channel_name, SilcClientEntry inviter
SILC_NOTIFY_TYPE_JOIN | Sent when someone joins to a channel. This is also sent whenever you join a channel, in addition of receiving SILC_COMMAND_JOIN command reply. | SilcClientEntry joining_client, SilcChannelEntry channel
SILC_NOTIFY_TYPE_LEAVE | Sent when someone leaves (parts) the channel. | SilcClientEntry leaving_client, SilcChannelEntry channel
SILC_NOTIFY_TYPE_SIGNOFF | Sent when someone signoff the SILC network. The 'signoff_message' may be NULL. The `signoff_client' is the client signing off. The `channel' is the channel where the client was joined. The `channel' may be NULL. | SilcClientEntry signoff_client, char *signoff_message, SilcChannelEntry channel
SILC_NOTIFY_TYPE_TOPIC_SET | Sent when the topic of a channel is set/changed. The 'setter_id_type' is used to check what type of pointer the 'setter_entry' is. For SILC_ID_CLIENT SilcClientEntry, for SILC_ID_SERVER SilcServerEntry and for SILC_ID_CHANNEL SilcChannelEntry. | SilcIdType setter_id_type, void *setter_entry, char *topic, SilcChannelEntry channel
SILC_NOTIFY_TYPE_NICK_CHANGE | Sent when someone changes their nickname. The 'client_entry' is the client whose nickname is changed. The `old_nickname' is the old nickname and the `new_nickname' is the new nickname. It has been already updated into the `client_entry'. | SilcClientEntry client_entry, const char *old_nickname, const char *new_nickname

SILC_NOTIFY_TYPE_CMODE_CHANGE

Sent when channel's mode has changed. The 'changer_id_type' is used to check what type of pointer the 'changer_entry' is. For SILC_ID_CLIENT SilcClientEntry, for SILC_ID_SERVER SilcServerEntry and for SILC_ID_CHANNEL SilcChannelEntry. The 'mode' is the mode mask after the change. The `cipher_name' is the cipher set for the channel. The `hmac_name' is the HMAC set for the channel. The `passphrase' is the passphrase that was set for the channel. The `founder_key' is the founder's public key when it was set for the channel. The `channel_pubkeys' is a list of SilcArgumentDecodedList contexts each containing one channel public key. The library will free the list automatically. The arguments 'cipher_name', 'hmac_name', 'passphrase', 'founder_key' and 'channel_pubkeys' may be NULL.

SilcIdType changer_id_type, void *changer_entry, SilcUInt32 mode, char *cipher_name, char *hmac_name, char *passphrase, SilcPublicKey founder_key, SilcDList channel_pubkeys, SilcChannelEntry channel

SILC_NOTIFY_TYPE_CUMODE_CHANGE

Sent when a users mode on a channel has changed. The 'changer_id_type' is used to check what type of pointer the 'changer_entry' is. For SILC_ID_CLIENT SilcClientEntry, for SILC_ID_SERVER SilcServerEntry and for SILC_ID_CHANNEL SilcChannelEntry. The 'mode' is the mode mask after the change. The 'target_client' is the client whose mode was changed.

SilcIdType changer_id_type, void *changer_entry, SilcUInt32 mode, SilcClientEntry target_client, SilcChannelEntry channel

SILC_NOTIFY_TYPE_MOTD | Message of the Day from the server. | char *motd
SILC_NOTIFY_TYPE_CHANNEL_CHANGE | Sent when a channel's Channel ID changes. It is possible that channel's ID changes and this notify is sent by the server when this happens. Usually application does not need to handle this notify type and may safely ignore it when received. | SilcChannelEntry channel
SILC_NOTIFY_TYPE_SERVER_SIGNOFF | Sent when a server quits the network. The 'clients' is a list of SilcClientEntry pointers. Each client in the entry is one client signing off from the SILC network. The library will free the list. The `server' is the quitting server, and it is NULL if the server isn't cached in the client library. | SilcServerEntry server, SilcDList clients
SILC_NOTIFY_TYPE_KICKED | Sent when a client (possibly our client) is kicked from a channel. The 'kick_message' may be NULL. If our client was kicked then 'kicked' is our local SilcClientEntry pointer. | SilcClientEntry kicked, char *kick_message, SilcClientEntry kicker, SilcChannelEntry channel

SILC_NOTIFY_TYPE_KILLED

Sent when a client (possibly our client) is killed from the network. The 'kill_message' may be NULL. If our client was killed then 'killed' is our local SilcClientEntry pointer. The 'killer_type' is used to check what type of pointer the 'killer' is. For SILC_ID_CLIENT SilcClientEntry, for SILC_ID_SERVER SilcServerEntry and for SILC_ID_CHANNEL SilcChannelEntry.

SilcClientEntry killed, char *kill_message, SilcIdType killer_type, void *killer, SilcChannelEntry channel

SILC_NOTIFY_TYPE_ERROR | Sent when an error occurs while handling some operation (except command) from the client. Application usually cannot handle this notify type and may safely ignore it. | SilcStatus error

SILC_NOTIFY_TYPE_WATCH

Sent to notify some status change of a client we are wathing. The SILC_COMMAND_WATCH is used to manage clients we are wathing and this notify type is used to deliver information about that client. If the client just changed nickname the 'new_nickname' includes the new nickname. Otherwise this pointer is NULL. The 'user_mode' is the client's mode in the SILC network. The 'notification' contains the notify type that happened for the 'watched_client' (for example SILC_NOTIFY_TYPE_NICK_CHANGE if the client changed their nickname). If the `new_nickname' is NULL and `notification' is SILC_NOTIFY_TYPE_NONE the `watched_client' has just joined the network.

SilcClientEntry watched_client, char *new_nickname, SilcUInt32 user_mode, SilcNotifyType notification, SilcPublicKey public_key

SILC protocol defines some additional notify types but those notify types are not delivered to the application. Some of those notify types are only delivered between servers and routers and clients never receive them. Only the notify types listed above are delivered to application.

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