/// <summary>
/// Get all known type descriptions from the server. Used by generic clients (like cache monitoring tools)
/// to produce queries without having dependencies to the .NET type.
/// </summary>
/// <returns></returns>
public IDictionary <string, TypeDescription> GetKnownTypes()
{
var request = new GetKnownTypesRequest();
var response = Channel.SendRequest(request);
if (response is ExceptionResponse exResponse)
{
throw new CacheException("Error while getting server information", exResponse.Message,
exResponse.CallStack);
}
var concreteResponse = (ServerDescriptionResponse)response;
return(concreteResponse.KnownTypesByFullName);
}
/// <summary>
/// Return useful information about the server process and the "data stores"
/// A "data store" is a data container on the server containing all the objects of a given type
/// </summary>
/// <returns></returns>
public ServerDescriptionResponse GetServerDescription()
{
var request = new GetKnownTypesRequest();
var response = Channel.SendRequest(request);
if (response is ExceptionResponse exResponse)
{
throw new CacheException("Error while getting server information", exResponse.Message,
exResponse.CallStack);
}
var concreteResponse = response as ServerDescriptionResponse;
Dbg.CheckThat(concreteResponse != null);
return(concreteResponse);
}
