[zeromq-dev] ForwarderDevice in .Net c#

[Pieter Hintjens]

Hi Noel,

You have worked through the Guide and its examples? In Chapter 3
there's a rrbroker example which shows this loop, and it's available
in C#.

-Pieter

On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Noel Anderton <noelAnderton at cox.net> wrote:
> Thanks for the help, I am trying it right now, but the problem with this is
> I am new to this and I am not sure about what is happening. It is a very
> strange (to me) programming practice to put something in an endless loop and
> have it just spinning, is this correct? Sometimes threads block on receiving
> a message, why do they block sometimes and spin through the loop other
> times. Which is better?
>
> When you say that I can replace the forwarder is it because the  .Net
> bindings are only in Beta and it does not work?
>
> Thanks Noel
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:zeromq-dev-bounces at lists.zeromq.org] On Behalf Of Pieter Hintjens
> Sent: Saturday, March 9, 2013 12:08 AM
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> Subject: Re: [zeromq-dev] ForwarderDevice in .Net c#
>
> Hi Noel.
>
> You can replace the call to the forwarder with your own loop. The logic is:
>
> * poll for input on both sockets
> * when you get input on one socket, read all parts and write to the other
> socket
>
> It's a short loop and writing it yourself will help you debug the problem
> (which may be elsewhere).
>
> -Pieter
>
> On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Noel Anderton <noelAnderton at cox.net> wrote:
>> Hi, I am having no luck getting a Forwarder device working with C#
>> bindings
>>
>>
>>
>> I have created my own rudimentary forwarder the code is here
>> http://pastebin.com/jwLF68Um
>>
>>
>>
>> I can connect to both the front and backend and publish to, and
>> successfully subscribe to this, but when I try to do the same with the
>> ForwarderDevice it does not work.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> My code for the forwarder looks like this
>>
>>
>>
>> ForwarderDevice = new ForwarderDevice(context, "tcp://*:5550",
>> "tcp://*:5553", DeviceMode.Threaded);
>>
>> ForwarderDevice.Start();
>>
>> while (!ForwarderDevice.IsRunning)
>>
>> { }
>>
>>
>>
>> The publisher and subscriber both connect and they are unchanged from
>> my home grown one that works and the provided one that I cant get to work
> yet.
>>
>>
>>
>> Front end
>>
>> Publisher.connect("tcp://localhost:5550")
>>
>>
>>
>> Back end
>>
>> Subscriber.Connect("tcp://localhost:5553");
>>
>>
>>
>> I am sending a multipart message , but I never receive anything.
>>
>>
>>
>> Any help is appreciated
>>
>>
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Noel
>>
>>
>>
>>
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