[zeromq-dev] Ingesting external data via TCP with 0MQ

[Ryan Richins]

Hi,

I have spent some time reading the 0MQ guide and going over the  
examples using both the perl and ruby bindings but still feel I need  
to just be pointed in the right direction regarding my particular  
situation.

We have hardware device that sends data in its own specific format via  
a TCP connection.  Currently I have a small perl program (using  
IO::Socket::INET) on a linux machine set up to parse the 'device  
specfic' protocol.

What I have been attempting to do but with no success is to use  
ZMQ::PULL to bind to the TCP port and then just read in the message  
from the device and print out whatever it gets to stdout.

The majority of the 0MQ examples expect that whatever is sending or  
receiving a message is 0MQ 'aware' for lack of a better word.  My  
question is, is this possible and really, if it is... should it be  
done and if so, how would I set up a small 0MQ example with either  
perl/ruby to just read in data from a socket and dump it to stdout?   
Or would it be better to use something like IO::Socket::INET to listen  
on a port, parse the incoming message and then send data off to  
workers which would be 0MQ aware?

Thanks,

Ryan