[zeromq-dev] Detection of data sending error
Pieter Hintjens
ph at imatix.com
Thu Jan 12 17:56:22 CET 2012
2012/1/12 Shamanin, Andrey <shamanin at mera.ru>:
> Hi! Whether socket_t::send() can report about delivery error? For example,
> destination is 'down', but send() returns true. This question concerns to
> ZMQ_PUSH/ZMQ_REQ sockets.
Sending is asynchronous, i.e. your app thread sends to an IO thread
which does the work in the background. send() will return an error
only if the IO thread refuses the message or there is another
programming error. Network errors are handled according to the type of
socket. For PUSH/DEALER/REQ sockets, the IO thread queues the message
and delivers to a peer when it can.
So app A can send a message, then app B can connect to A and recv the message.
If you need A to detect that there is no B, or that B disappeared, you
add this intelligence on top. The Guide has examples of how to do
this, in the section on Reliable Request Reply.
-Pieter
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