[zeromq-dev] Integrating ZeroMQ into existing systems?
Peter Alexander
vel.accel at gmail.com
Mon Jul 12 20:04:50 CEST 2010
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist at mac.com> wrote:
> On Jul 12, 2010, at 12:18 PM, Steven Clark wrote:
>
>> Forgive me a simple/stupid question here-
>>
>> To make use of ZeroMQ, do both ends of a simple network connection
>> need to be programmed with ZeroMQ, or can one endpoint use ZeroMQ and
>> the other use low-level (Berkeley-style) sockets?
>>
>> I have a situation where a device (microcontroller-based) connects
>> periodically to a TCP server, sends/recvs some data, and disconnects.
>> The server sends some filtered form of the data to other network
>> endpoints. Currently everything is written using low-level sockets.
>> I'd like to switch the server to use ZeroMQ so I can take advantage of
>> Publisher/Subscriber sockets, etc for the distribution of data from
>> the server. Should/can I make the link between the device and the
>> server use ZeroMQ, given that I can't exactly port ZeroMQ to run on
>> the microcontroller platform?
>>
>> In the event that I can use it for the device connection, is the PAIR
>> topology the correct one to use? What happens if the device doesn't
>> shut down the connection cleanly (which happens fairly often)? Is
>> there any danger of getting stuck in a FIN_WAIT state?
>
> You can use regular sockets but you need to conform to the 0mq wire protocol.
>
> See: http://api.zeromq.org/zmq_tcp.html
>
> I think you could probably get something working on the microcontroller platform for SUB sockets pretty easily.
>
Correct me if I'm wrong here.. zmq_poll() can also be used. And I
believe Martin is working on making this transparent for the future.
~peter
> cr
>
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