+
+ /** \brief Context of callbacks (opaque structure, created by the middleware only, never by user) */
+ typedef struct s_gras_msg_cb_ctx *gras_msg_cb_ctx_t;
+
+XBT_PUBLIC(void) gras_msg_cb_ctx_free(gras_msg_cb_ctx_t ctx);
+XBT_PUBLIC(gras_socket_t) gras_msg_cb_ctx_from(gras_msg_cb_ctx_t ctx);
+
+ /** \brief Type of message callback functions.
+ *
+ * \param expeditor: a socket to contact who sent this message
+ * \param payload: the message itself
+ *
+ * \return true if the message was consumed by the callback,
+ * false if the message was refused by the callback (and should be
+ * passed to the next callback of the stack for this message)
+ *
+ * Once a such a function is registered to handle messages of a given
+ * type with \ref gras_cb_register(), it will be called each time such
+ * a message arrives (unless a gras_msg_wait() intercepts it on arrival).
+ *
+ * If the callback accepts the message, it should free it after use.
+ */
+ typedef int (*gras_msg_cb_t) (gras_msg_cb_ctx_t ctx, void *payload);
+
+ /**
+ * @brief Bind the given callback to the given message type (described by its name)
+ * @hideinitializer
+ *
+ * Several callbacks can be attached to a given message type. The lastly added one will get the message first, and
+ * if it returns a non-null value, the message will be passed to the second one.
+ * And so on until one of the callbacks accepts the message.
+ *
+ * Using gras_cb_register is a bit slower than using gras_cb_register_ since GRAS
+ * has to search for the given msgtype in the hash table, but you don't care in most case.
+ */
+#define gras_cb_register(msgtype_name, cb) gras_cb_register_(gras_msgtype_by_name(msgtype_name),cb)
+
+ /**
+ * @brief Unbind the given callback to the given message type (described by its name)
+ * @hideinitializer
+ *
+ * Using gras_cb_unregister is a bit slower than using gras_cb_unregister_ since GRAS
+ * has to search for the given msgtype in the hash table, but you don't care in most case.
+ */
+#define gras_cb_unregister(msgtype_name, cb) gras_cb_unregister_(gras_msgtype_by_name(msgtype_name),cb)
+
+XBT_PUBLIC(void) gras_cb_register_(gras_msgtype_t msgtype, gras_msg_cb_t cb);
+XBT_PUBLIC(void) gras_cb_unregister_(gras_msgtype_t msgtype,
+ gras_msg_cb_t cb);
+
+/** @} */
+
+/** @defgroup GRAS_msg_exchange Message exchange
+ * @ingroup GRAS_msg