### DbEnv::rep_process_message

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    #include <db_cxx.h>

    int
    DbEnv::rep_process_message(Dbt *control, Dbt *rec, int *envid, DbLsn *ret_lsnp)

### Description: DbEnv::rep_process_message

The DbEnv::rep_process_message method processes an incoming replication message sent by a member of the replication group to the local database environment.

The DbEnv::rep_process_message method is not called by most replication applications. It should only be called by applications implementing their own network transport layer, explicitly holding replication group elections and handling replication messages outside of the replication manager framework.

For implementation reasons, all incoming replication messages must be processed using the same DbEnv handle. It is not required that a single thread of control process all messages, only that all threads of control processing messages use the same handle.

The DbEnv::rep_process_message method has additional return values:

DB_REP_DUPMASTER

  The DbEnv::rep_process_message method will either return DB_REP_DUPMASTER or throw an exception that encapsulates DB_REP_DUPMASTER if the replication group has more than one master. The application should reconfigure itself as a client by calling the DbEnv::rep_start method, and then call for an election by calling DbEnv::rep_elect.

DB_REP_HOLDELECTION

  The DbEnv::rep_process_message method will either return DB_REP_HOLDELECTION or throw an exception that encapsulates DB_REP_HOLDELECTION if an election is needed. The application should call for an election by calling DbEnv::rep_elect.

DB_REP_IGNORE

  The DbEnv::rep_process_message method will return DB_REP_IGNORE if this message cannot be processed. This is an indication that this message is irrelevant to the current replication state (for example, an old message from a previous generation arrives and is processed late).

DB_REP_ISPERM

  The DbEnv::rep_process_message method will return DB_REP_ISPERM if processing this message results in the processing of records that are permanent. The maximum LSN of the permanent records stored is returned.

DB_REP_JOIN_FAILURE

  The DbEnv::rep_process_message method will return DB_REP_JOIN_FAILURE if a new master has been chosen but the client is unable to synchronize with the new master (possibly because the client has been configured with the DB_REP_CONF_NOAUTOINIT flag to turn-off automatic internal initialization).

DB_REP_NEWMASTER

  The DbEnv::rep_process_message method will return DB_REP_NEWMASTER if a new master has been chosen. The envid parameter contains the environment ID of the new master. If the recipient of this error return has been made master, it is the application's responsibility to begin acting as the master environment.

DB_REP_NEWSITE

  The DbEnv::rep_process_message method will return DB_REP_NEWSITE if the system received contact information from a new environment. The rec parameter contains the opaque data specified in the cdata parameter to the DbEnv::rep_start. The application should take whatever action is needed to establish a communication channel with this new environment.

DB_REP_NOTPERM

  The DbEnv::rep_process_message method will return DB_REP_NOTPERM if a message carrying a DB_REP_PERMANENT flag was processed successfully, but was not written to disk. The LSN of this record is returned. The application should take whatever action is deemed necessary to retain its recoverability characteristics.

Unless otherwise specified, the DbEnv::rep_process_message method either returns a non-zero error value or throws an exception that encapsulates a non-zero error value on failure, and returns 0 on success.

### Parameters

control
  The control parameter should reference a copy of the control parameter specified by Berkeley DB on the sending environment.
envid
  The envid parameter should contain the local identifier that corresponds to the environment that sent the message to be processed (see Replication environment IDs for more information).
rec
  The rec parameter should reference a copy of the rec parameter specified by Berkeley DB on the sending environment.
ret_lsnp
  If DbEnv::rep_process_message method returns DB_REP_NOTPERM then the ret_lsnp parameter will contain the log sequence number of this permanent log message that could not be written to disk. If DbEnv::rep_process_message method returns DB_REP_ISPERM then the ret_lsnp parameter will contain largest log sequence number of the permanent records that are now written to disk as a result of processing this message. In all other cases the value of ret_lsnp is undefined.

### Class

DbEnv

### See Also

Replication and Related Methods`

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