popufare/Documentation/billdb-to-server.txt

	The billdb module keeps track of the local copy of the billing log
database by reciving billing log entries from other modules and storing
them in a local database. Each message is a single line of ASCII text 
with tab delimited fields (there is no valid reason to allow a tab in
any of the fields, any tabs inside the fields should be translated to single
spaces) and terminated by a newline.

	When the client wants to commit new records, it 
issues a commit request in this format:



BILLINGENTRY
BILLINGENTRY
...

where BILLINGENTRY is a record formated like this:
 
0)  equip_num     INT\t
1)  driver        INT\t
2) paddle        INT\t
3)  route         INT\t
4)  trip          INT\t
5)  stop          INT\t
6)  ride_time TIMESTAMP\t
7)  latitude      DOUBLE\t
8)  longitude     DOUBLE\t
9)  action VARCHAR(16)\t
10)  rule  VARCHAR(24)\t
11)	 ruleparam VARCHAR(24)\t
12)  reason VARCHAR(32)\t
13)  credential VARCHAR(32)\t
14)  cash_value INT\t
15)	 stop_name	VARCHAR(64)\n

OR a log entry formatted like this:
[!*#]some data....\n

	The serevr will reply to EVERY message with either:
	
DUP	md5sum

or

ACK	md5sum

or

IGN	md5sum

	Either if which will allow the client to remove its local copy of 
the log entry.  Do not reply with ACK or DUP until the row has been stored
to the server-side database.  Reply with IGN if you have been sent garbage
and want the client to stop retrying that garbage string.