.. _architecture_discovery:

Discovery module
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This module is responsible for the discovery operation of the DDS implementation.

In the current version of Safe DDS, the provided :ref:`DDS APIs <architecture_dds>` do not allow changing the default discovery mechanism, and therefore, the provided implementation is compliant with OMG DDS specification v1.4 Simple Discovery Protocol.

.. admonition:: API Reference
   :class: seealso

   For more information about ``discovery::IDiscovery`` interface, please refer to `discovery::IDiscovery <../doxygen/classeprosima_1_1safedds_1_1discovery_1_1_i_discovery.html>`__