[zeromq-dev] PUB/SUB with multiple publishers

Martin Sustrik sustrik at 250bpm.com
Sat Jul 17 09:46:08 CEST 2010


Grant,

> I recently tried something similar.  My aim was to have a main publisher
> socket in the main thread, and then each worker thread have a another
> publisher socket.  I would then have a pipe between the worker sockets
> and a sub socket in the main thread.  It is my understanding that the
> forwarder device is supposed to work for this scenario - i.e. forward
> from the sub skt to the main pub skt.  I recieved no errors, but none of
> the messages got delivered to the other sub skts that subscribed.
> 
> I managed to implement my own queue in which I forward all messages, and
> then have one publisher thread to just publish messages.  I have only
> been able to get the pub/sub mechanism to work when there is just one
> publisher.  If anyone has any alternate ideas, I'd be interested.
> thanks.

It is this code:

http://pastebin.com/7wB68Hjy

Right?

If so, you are not subscribing to any messages in the worker socket 
(opened at line 101).

Note that SUB socket subscribes for no messages by default.

Martin



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