I'm trying to use the Northbound Notifications sent by the MSE to get real-time statuses of tags and/or clients. I'd like to use the Protocol Buffers option as it is faster and smaller to transmit, but I can't find any examples or documentation that show how to parse out the binary packet that is sent. Does anyone have an example of parsing out Northbound Notifications using Protocol Buffers? Does anyone know where I can find the .proto files that are used to create these notifications?
We are on version 8.0.130.0 of the MSE. We are requesting notifications from All Tag Triggers and All Tag Info. We would also like to request notifications from all Wireless Clients as well. The Type would be Streaming, Data Format = Protocol Buffers, Receiver Transport = TCP, Stream Type = Raw Location or RSSI Measurements.
I can get this information using HTTP and XML, but it is too slow and cannot keep up with the amount of messages when I add Wireless Clients.
Response from CMX engineering:
Protocol Buffers is what we use to send RAW data from MSE to third party location engines.
We have been depreciating this as we believe that the right way to move forward is with REST API and JSON data structures where CMX plays more of a role.
When you say this cannot keep up with Wireless clients, is this the MSE with a high end CPU ?
MSE 8.0 is at the EOL so it may make sense to focus new development on our goal of moving forward.
That being said, a protocol buffer listener is available, please request a copy.
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