Method Reply

Sends a message as a reply to this message using a default serializer without waiting on a reply.

public void Reply(IConnection connection, Message replyMessage, IEnumerable<Type> knownTypes, TimeSpan? timeout = null)

connection IConnection: The SLNet connection to use.
replyMessage Message: The message to reply with.
knownTypes IEnumerable<Type>: A list of all the possible Message classes, necessary for the default background serializer.
timeout TimeSpan?: (Optional) The maximum time a message can take to be sent. Only applies when the broker is used to reply.

ArgumentNullException: connection or replyMessage or knownTypes is null.
ArgumentOutOfRangeException: timeout is negative.
InvalidOperationException: The message does not expect a reply.
InvalidOperationException: The state of the element specified by the return address is not "Active".
MessageTooBigException: The serialized size of the message is too big.
TimeoutException: The broker experienced a timeout while sending the reply.

Sends a message as a reply to this message without waiting on a reply.

public void Reply(IConnection connection, Message replyMessage, ISerializer serializer, TimeSpan? timeout = null)

connection IConnection: The SLNet connection to use.
replyMessage Message: The message to reply with.
serializer ISerializer: A custom serializer.
timeout TimeSpan?: (Optional) The maximum time a message can take to be sent. Only applies when the broker is used to reply.

ArgumentNullException: connection or replyMessage or serializer is null.
ArgumentOutOfRangeException: timeout is negative.
InvalidOperationException: The message does not expect a reply.
InvalidOperationException: The state of the element specified by the return address is not "Active".
MessageTooBigException: The serialized size of the message is too big.
TimeoutException: The broker experienced a timeout while sending the reply.

Sends a message as a reply to this message using a default serializer and waits on a reply.

public Message Reply(IConnection connection, Message replyMessage, TimeSpan timeout, IEnumerable<Type> knownTypes)

connection IConnection: The SLNet connection to use.
replyMessage Message: The message to reply with.
timeout TimeSpan: The maximum time to wait between each reply. Wait time resets each time a reply is received.
knownTypes IEnumerable<Type>: A list of all the possible Message classes, necessary for the default background serializer.

ArgumentNullException: connection or replyMessage or knownTypes is null.
ArgumentOutOfRangeException: timeout is negative.
InvalidOperationException: The message does not expect a reply.
InvalidOperationException: The state of the element specified by the return address is not "Active".
InvalidOperationException: ReturnAddress of replyMessage is not filled in.
MessageTooBigException: The serialized size of the message is too big.
TimeoutException: The broker experienced a timeout while sending the reply.
TimeoutException: No reply was received within the specified timeout.

Sends a message as a reply to this message and waits on a reply.

public Message Reply(IConnection connection, Message replyMessage, TimeSpan timeout, ISerializer serializer)

connection IConnection: The SLNet connection to use.
replyMessage Message: The message to reply with.
timeout TimeSpan: The maximum time to wait between each reply. Wait time resets each time a reply is received.
serializer ISerializer: A custom serializer.

ArgumentNullException: connection or replyMessage or serializer is null.
ArgumentOutOfRangeException: timeout is negative.
InvalidOperationException: The message does not expect a reply.
InvalidOperationException: The state of the element specified by the return address is not "Active".
InvalidOperationException: ReturnAddress of replyMessage is not filled in.
MessageTooBigException: The serialized size of the message is too big.
TimeoutException: The broker experienced a timeout while sending the reply.
TimeoutException: No reply was received within the specified timeout.