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Simple TCAP implementation in the Go Programming Language.

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Package tcap provides simple and painless handling of TCAP (Transaction Capabilities Application Part) in SS7/SIGTRAN protocol stack, intended for Go developers to use.

Disclaimer

Though TCAP is an ASN.1-based protocol, this implementation does not use any ASN.1 parser. That makes this implementation flexible enough to create arbitrary payload with any combinations, which is useful for testing while it also means that many of the features in TCAP are not supported yet.

This is still an experimental project, and currently in its very early stage of development. Any part of implementations(including exported APIs) may be changed before released as v1.0.0.

Getting started

Prerequisites

Run go mod tidy in your project's directory to collect the required packages automatically.

This project follows the Release Policy of Go.

Running examples

A sample client is available in examples/client/, which, by default, establishes SCTP/M3UA connection with a server sends a MAP cancelLocation.

Transaction Capabilities Application Part
    begin
        [Transaction Id: 11111111]
        Source Transaction ID
        oid: 0.0.17.773.1.1.1 (id-as-dialogue)
        dialogueRequest
        components: 1 item
            Component: invoke (1)
                invoke
                    invokeID: 0
                    opCode: localValue (0)
                    CONSTRUCTOR
                        CONSTRUCTOR Tag
                        Tag: 0x00
                        Length: 10
                        Parameter (0x04)
                            Tag: 0x04
                            Length: 8
                        Data: 00
GSM Mobile Application
    Component: invoke (1)
        invoke
            invokeID: 0
            opCode: localValue (0)
                localValue: cancelLocation (3)
            identity: imsi-WithLMSI (1)
                imsi-WithLMSI
                    IMSI: 001010123456789
                    [Association IMSI: 001010123456789]

Some parameters can be speficied from command-line arguments. Other parameters including the ones in lower layers (such as Point Code in M3UA, Global Title in SCCP, etc.) should be updated by modifying the source code.

$ ./client -h
Usage of client:
  -addr string
        Remote IP and Port to connect to. (default "127.0.0.2:2905")
  -opcode int
        Operation Code in int. (default 3)
  -otid int
        Originating Transaction ID in uint32. (default 286331153)
  -payload string
        Hex representation of the payload (default "040800010121436587f9")

If you are looking for a server that just can accept a SCTP/M3UA connection to receive a TCAP packet, server example in go-m3ua project would be a nice choice for you.

Supported Features

Transaction Portion

Message Types

Message typeSupported?
Unidirectional
BeginYes
EndYes
ContinueYes
AbortYes

Fields

TagSupported?
Originating Transaction IDYes
Destination Transaction IDYes
P-Abort CauseYes

Component Portion

Component types

Component typeSupported?
InvokeYes
Return Result (Last)Yes
Return Result (Not Last)Yes
Return ErrorYes
RejectYes

Dialogue Portion

Dialogue types

Dialogue typeSupported?
Dialogue Request (AARQ-apdu)Yes
Dialogue Response (AARE-apdu)Yes
Dialogue Abort (ABRT-apdu)Yes
Unidirectional Dialogue (AUDT-apdu)

Elements

TagTypeSupported?
Object IdentifierStructuredYes
Single-ASN.1-typeStructuredYes
Dialogue PDUStructuredYes
Object IdentifierUnstructured
Single-ASN.1-typeUnstructured
Unidirectional Dialogue PDUUnstructured

Author(s)

Yoshiyuki Kurauchi (Website)

LICENSE

MIT