[zeromq-dev] Bidirectional asynchronous communication

[Niels Berglund]

DEALER - ROUTER should give you this.

Niels


On 13 February 2013 15:09, Adam Covitch <adam.covitch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does ZeroMQ support a pattern where a single pair of sockets exist such
> that either side can initiate a message? Also, communication is
> asynchronous? So far the only solution I've found is having two
> REQ/ROUTER/DEALER/REP channels, one in each direction. Asynchrony is
> provided through the use of zmq_poll().  Can this be done using a single
> channel?
>
> -- Further details --
> I am new to ZeroMQ and messaging in general. Our team is designing a
> messaging framework to fit into a preexisting application model that
> consists multiple applications. The number and type of applications
> dynamically changes, but they are all either servies or user-launched
> applications.
>
> We would like to use ZeroMQ to enabled communication _among_ our
> applications. I had envisioned a central component that would establish
> communication between the application based on a set of business logic
> rules (i.e. "connect me to the only instance of application X that exists
> in teh same grapphics context as myself"). Communication would then be
> either spun off between the two nodes or continue through the central
> component. We haven't decided yet. But each component (even the central
> component) must be able to both initiate and reply to messages.
>
> My question is in how to establish the links between each application that
> allows either side to initiate the conversation, and also how to make the
> conversations sufficiently bulletproof such that if one side crashes the
> other side doesn't hang waiting for a reply (I intend to use asynchrony for
> this).
>
> I was hoping for a full-duplex sort of socket pattern, but I haven't found
> one so far.
>
> Thank you!
> Adam
>
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