| ▼Ncaf | Root namespace of libcaf |
| ▼Nio | Contains all network-related classes and functions |
| ▼Nbasp | |
| Cheader | The header of a Binary Actor System Protocol (BASP) message |
| Caccept_handle | Generic handle type for managing incoming connections |
| Cacceptor_closed_msg | Signalizes that a broker acceptor has been closed |
| Cbasp_broker | A broker implementation for the Binary Actor System Protocol (BASP) |
| Cbroker | A broker mediates between actor systems and other components in the network |
| Cconnection_closed_msg | Signalizes that a broker connection has been closed |
| Cconnection_handle | Generic handle type for identifying connections |
| Chook | Interface to define hooks into the IO layer |
| Cmiddleman | Manages brokers and network backends |
| Cnew_connection_msg | Signalizes a newly accepted connection from a broker |
| Cnew_data_msg | Signalizes newly arrived data for a broker |
| ▼Npolicy | Contains policies encapsulating characteristics or algorithms |
| Cprofiled | An enhancement of CAF's scheduling policy which records fine-grained resource utiliziation for worker threads and actors in the parent coordinator of the workers |
| ▼Cscheduler_policy | This concept class describes a policy for worker and coordinator of the scheduler |
| Ccoordinator_data | Policy-specific data fields for the coordinator |
| Cworker_data | Policy-specific data fields for the worker |
| Cwork_stealing | Implements scheduling of actors via work stealing |
| Cabstract_actor | Base class for all actor implementations |
| Cabstract_channel | Interface for all message receivers |
| ▼Cabstract_group | A multicast group |
| Cmodule | Interface for user-defined multicast implementations |
| Cabstract_uniform_type_info | Implements all pure virtual functions of uniform_type_info except serialize() and deserialize() |
| Cactor | Identifies an untyped actor |
| Cactor_addr | Stores the address of typed as well as untyped actors |
| Cactor_companion | An co-existing forwarding all messages through a user-defined callback to another object, thus serving as gateway to allow any object to interact with other actors |
| Cactor_exited | Thrown if an actor finished execution |
| ▼Cactor_namespace | Groups a (distributed) set of actors and allows actors in the same namespace to exchange messages |
| Cbackend | The backend of an actor namespace is responsible for creating proxy actors |
| ▼Cactor_pool | An actor poool is a lightweight abstraction for a set of workers |
| Cbroadcast | Default policy class implementing broadcast dispatching |
| Crandom | Default policy class implementing random dispatching |
| Cround_robin | Default policy class implementing simple round robin dispatching |
| ▼Cactor_proxy | Represents an actor running on a remote machine, or different hardware, or in a separate process |
| Canchor | An anchor points to a proxy instance without sharing ownership to it, i.e., models a weak ptr |
| Cadvanced_match_case_impl | |
| Canything | Acts as wildcard expression in patterns |
| Catom_constant | Lifts an atom_value to a compile-time constant |
| ▼Cattachable | Callback utility class |
| Ctoken | Represents a pointer to a value with its subtype as type ID number |
| Cbehavior | Describes the behavior of an actor, i.e., provides a message handler and an optional timeout |
| Cbinary_deserializer | Implements the deserializer interface with a binary serialization protocol |
| Cbinary_serializer | Implements the serializer interface with a binary serialization protocol |
| Cbind_failure | Thrown to indicate that an actor publishing failed because the requested port could not be used |
| Cblocking_actor | A thread-mapped or context-switching actor using a blocking receive rather than a behavior-stack based message processing |
| Cblocking_response_handle_tag | This tag identifies response handles featuring a blocking API by providing an await member function |
| Ccaf_exception | Base class for exceptions |
| Cchannel | A handle to instances of abstract_channel |
| Ccontinue_helper | Helper class to enable users to add continuations when dealing with synchronous sends |
| Cdeserializer | Technology-independent deserialization interface |
| Cdown_msg | Sent to all actors monitoring an actor when it is terminated |
| Cduration | Time duration consisting of a time_unit and a 64 bit unsigned integer |
| Cevent_based_actor | A cooperatively scheduled, event-based actor implementation |
| Cexecution_unit | Identifies an execution unit, e.g., a worker thread of the scheduler |
| Cexit_msg | Sent to all links when an actor is terminated |
| Cextend | Allows convenient definition of types using mixins |
| Cforwarding_actor_proxy | Implements a simple proxy forwarding all operations to a manager |
| Cgroup_down_msg | Sent to all members of a group when it goes offline |
| Chandle | Base class for IO handles such as accept_handle or connection_handle |
| Cillegal_message_element | Marker class identifying classes in CAF that are not allowed to be used as message element |
| Cinfer_typed_actor_base | Infers the appropriate base class for a functor-based typed actor from the result and the first argument of the functor |
| Cintrusive_ptr | An intrusive, reference counting smart pointer impelementation |
| Cis_anything | |
| Cis_same_ish | Compares T to U und evaluates to true_type if either `T == U or if T and U are both integral types of the same size and signedness |
| Clocal_actor | Base class for actors running on this node, either living in an own thread or cooperatively scheduled |
| Cmemory_managed | This base enables derived classes to enforce a different allocation strategy than new/delete by providing a virtual protected request_deletion() function and non-public destructor |
| ▼Cmessage | Describes a fixed-length, copy-on-write, type-erased tuple with elements of any type |
| Ccli_arg | Stores the name of a command line option ("<long name>[,<short name>]") along with a description and a callback |
| Ccli_res | Stores the result of message::extract_opts |
| Cmessage_builder | Provides a convenient interface for createing message objects from a series of values using the member function append |
| Cmessage_handler | A partial function implementation used to process a message |
| Cmessage_id | Denotes whether a message is asynchronous or synchronous |
| Cnetwork_error | Thrown to indicate that either an actor publishing failed or the middleman was unable to connect to a remote host |
| ▼Cnode_id | A node ID consists of a host ID and process ID |
| Cdata | A reference counted container for host ID and process ID |
| Cnonblocking_response_handle_tag | This tag identifies response handles featuring a nonblocking API by providing a then member function |
| Coptional | Represents an optional value of T |
| Coptional< T & > | Template specialization to allow optional to hold a reference rather than an actual value |
| Cratio_to_time_unit_helper | Converts the ratio Num/Denom to a time_unit if the ratio describes seconds, milliseconds, microseconds, or minutes |
| Cref_counted | Base class for reference counted objects with an atomic reference count |
| Cresponse_handle | This helper class identifies an expected response message and enables sync_send(...).then(...) |
| Cresponse_promise | A response promise can be used to deliver a uniquely identifiable response message from the server (i.e |
| Cresumable | A cooperatively executed task managed by one or more instances of execution_unit |
| Cscoped_actor | A scoped handle to a blocking actor |
| Cserializer | Technology-independent serialization interface |
| Cskip_message_t | Optional return type for functors used in pattern matching expressions |
| Cspawn_options | |
| Csync_exited_msg | Sent whenever a terminated actor receives a synchronous request |
| Csync_timeout_msg | Sent whenever a timeout occurs during a synchronous send |
| Ctimeout_msg | Signalizes a timeout event |
| Ctyped_actor | Identifies a strongly typed actor |
| Ctyped_event_based_actor | A cooperatively scheduled, event-based actor implementation with strong type checking |
| Cunbox_message_element | Unboxes atom constants, i.e., converts atom_constant<V> to V |
| Cuniform_type_info | Provides a platform independent type name and a (very primitive) kind of reflection in combination with object |
| Cvariant | A variant represents always a valid value of one of the types Ts... |