[zeromq-dev] Implementing failover in client side

[Pieter Hintjens]

2010/10/30 Jaime Fernández <jjjaime at gmail.com>:

> I'm using the python binding, so ZFL classes might be hard to be used.
> However I will have a look at them.

Even if you don't use them as such, they show how to do this using
polling and heartbeating.

> Would it be possible to specify a timeout in zmq (to avoid an eternal
> blocked socket)? For example, with the function zmq_setsockopt you could
> specify the amount of seconds your socket will be waiting for
> zmq_send/zmq_recv. It could be an intermediate approach.

Just use zmq_poll.

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Pieter Hintjens
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