Introduction

This is the C API for the Proton AMQP protocol engine. It allows you to write client and server applications that send and receive AMQP messages.

Core

@ref core is a collection of types and functions representing AMQP concepts. Together they form a “protocol engine” API to create AMQP connections and links, handle @ref event “events”, and send and receive @ref message “messages”.

Types

@ref types contains C data types, including @ref amqp_types and @ref api_types.

Codec

@ref codec has functions for AMQP data encoding and decoding.

IO

@ref io holds interfaces for integrating Proton with platform IO.

The @ref proactor is a portable, proactive, asynchronous API for single- or multithreaded applications. It associates AMQP @ref connection “connections” with network connections (@ref transport “transports”) and allows one or more threads to handle @ref event “events”.

Low-level integration - The @ref connection_driver provides a low-level SPI to feed byte streams from any source to the protocol engine. You can use it to integrate Proton directly with a foreign event loop or IO library, or to implement your own @ref proactor to transparently replace Proton's IO layer.