NSPortMessage

Instances of this class represent low-level interapplication communication meesages. Cocoa's distributed objects system uses this class extensively for communications between applications on the same host machine. Associated with each port messages is a sending NSPort, a receiving NSPort, and an array of message components that may be instances of NSData or NSPort. Instances of this class are initialized using the method initWithSendPort:receivePort:components:. Messages are sent by invoking the method sendBeforeDate:. Finally, the components method is used to retrieve the components of a port message, while sendPort and receivePort are used to retrieve the port message's send and receive port objects. Applications should make use of the high-level Distributed Objects API for interapplication communication, and resort to raw messaging with port messages for exceptional circumstances.

@interface NSPortMessage : NSObject

 // Initializers

   - (id)initWithSendPort:(NSPort *)sendPort receivePort:(NSPort *)replyPort components:(NSArray *)components;

 // Accessor Methods

   - (void)setMsgid:(unsigned)msgid;

   - (unsigned)msgid;

 // Instance Methods

   - (NSArray *)components;

   - (NSPort *)receivePort;

   - (BOOL)sendBeforeDate:(NSDate *)date;

   - (NSPort *)sendPort;