Actor: User Application

Goal: Send a request

Description: Send a request and wait for a response

Preconditions:

1. The engine must be started.

None.

Priority: High

Related Use Cases:

UC16.0 - Send Peer Request Async
UC17.0 - Cancel Peer Request
UC27.0 - Handle Peer Request
UC29.0 - Query Request Status

Notes and Issues:

None.

Event Flow:

1. The application asks the engine to transmit a request to a peer.
2. The engine constructs an appropriate request message.
3. The engine sends the query message to the peer.
4. After the engine receives the response, the response is returned to the application.

UC15.1 Engine is not started

1. The application asks the engine to transmit a request to a peer.
2. The engine returns an error that the it has not been started.

UC15.2 The peer is not available

1. The application asks the engine to transmit a request to a peer.
2. The engine constructs an appropriate request message.
3. The engine sends the query message to the peer.
4. The engine determines that the peer is not currently available.
5. The engine returns an error that the peer is not available.

UC15.3 Timeout

1. The application asks the engine to transmit a request to a peer.
2. The engine constructs an appropriate request message.
3. The engine sends the query message to the peer.
4. The engine determines that the timeout period has been exceeded.
5. The engine returns an error that the timeout was exceeded.

Sequence Diagrams:

Revision History

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