Finesse Requests

Topic Name	finesse.info.requests
Topic Type	Gadgets publish to this topic.

Communication between gadgets and the Finesse Desktop or other gadgets is done through inter-gadget notification via OpenAjax Hub. A gadget can send an operation request to the Finesse Desktop by publishing a request object to the Finesse request topic.

The gadget must construct an object to be published to the request topic with the following structure:

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{
    type: string,
    data: object
}

The type parameter describes the request type.

The data parameter provides additional information for the Finesse Desktop to respond to the request. The contents of this data depends on the type of request.

The following sections describe the different types of requests supported.

Note	More request types may be added in the future.