Creating a Message Pattern

To create message patterns, use the tt_pattern_create function. You can use this function to get a handle or opaque pointer to a new pattern object, and then use this handle on succeeding calls to reference the pattern.

To fill in pattern information, use the tt_pattern_attribute_add and tt_pattern_attribute_set calls. You can supply multiple values for each attribute you add to a pattern. The pattern attribute matches a message attribute if any of the values in the pattern match the value in the message. If no value is specified for an attribute, the ToolTalk service assumes that you want any value to match. Some attributes are set and, therefore, can only have one value.