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authorDominik Holland <dominik.holland@pelagicore.com>2018-05-11 20:27:26 +0200
committerRobert Griebl <robert.griebl@pelagicore.com>2018-05-14 15:17:22 +0000
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Fix documentation for 5.11
Moved the qtivi doc into the ivicore source folder and the qtgeniviextras in the geniviextras source folder. This is more in line with the rest of qt and also only builds the documentation for the module when the module is actually enabled through the configure system. Also fixed all remaining qdoc errors and moved to the new syntax needed for documenting templates with the new clang-based qdoc. Change-Id: I187bd5848dc79e2231c6c49c9b7a9845edb61817 Reviewed-by: Robert Griebl <robert.griebl@pelagicore.com>
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+/****************************************************************************
+**
+** Copyright (C) 2018 Pelagicore AG
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+**
+** This file is part of the documentation of the QtIvi module of the Qt Toolkit.
+**
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+****************************************************************************/
+/*!
+\page remotebackends.html
+\title QtIvi Remote Backends
+
+One of the features of the Qt IVI Generator is the possibility to create remote backends
+that utilize the QtRemoteObjects module.
+A remote backend may be an independently running process, even on a separate host machine, that can
+be accessed by multiple clients, or frontends. Such frontends are e.g. the main infotainment system
+UI, different applications running within the UI or mobile devices.
+
+\section1 Motivation
+
+The purpose of having remote backends is to enable the distribution of functionality and the sharing
+of information. This may be between multiple processes and even between multiple host machines.
+Separate processes improve the overall reliability of a complex system and make it possible to
+separate computationally intensive code from the UI code. Additionally, remote backends can be
+accessible by multiple frontend points, be it the central UI, separate applications or even mobile
+devices or third party applications.
+Combined with the automatic generation of code and uniform feature loading of QtIvi, the development
+of distributed features comes with a minimal development overhead and interchangeability and
+transparency on the UI code side.
+
+\section1 Code Generation
+
+The remote objects generator produces client side code as a QtIvi backend plugin and a remote server
+stub. The client is generated using the \l {backend-qtro-template}{backend_qtro} template and the s
+erver using the \l {server-qtro-template}{server_qtro} template. Both the plugin and the server
+contain generated c++ code and an intermediate .rep -file that is further processed by Qt’s
+\l [QtRemoteObjects] {Qt Remote Objects Compiler} {replica compiler} to produce the actual source
+and replica classes.
+
+The generated plugin is loaded and used as any other QtIvi plugin and is interchangeable with any
+other backend implementation with the same API. As all method calls over QtIvi feature interfaces
+are asynchronous, the use of a remote backend is similar to any other type of backend.
+
+The generated plugin is buildable and usable as it is, and does not require further changes by the
+developer. The task of the developer will be then to implement the intended functionality at the
+server side. To support getting started with the server, there is a generated class that initializes
+the connection. All connection parameters to the plugin and to the server are passed currently over
+a config file, either in a default location or at an user specified path.
+
+For a steb-by-step introduction to remote backends, see the \l {ivicore/qface-ivi-remote}{Remote Backend Example}.
+
+*/