[zeromq-dev] libzmq utility functions

[shancat]

Presumably it's not very often you create a socket without
binding/connecting it so these don't really "depend on the application".
On Oct 29, 2013 9:04 PM, "Peter Kleiweg" <pkleiweg at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Pieter Hintjens schreef op de 29e dag van de wijnmaand van het jaar 2013:
>
> > I think it's a great idea and was playing with it also. It should go
> > into the low level API IMO so it's available to all languages.
> >
> > You could make a single API call, zmq_new_endpoint () which has
> > different syntax for the endpoint depending on direction. E.g. by
> > default, it's a bind but if you prefix with ">" it's a connect.
> >
> > It could also be nice to consider endpoint resolution in libzmq using
> > an internal protocol as we do for authentication. I.e. bind/connect to
> > "$myname" which gets resolved by a plugin into "tcp://hostname:port".
>
> I think these kind of things are more for applications. There,
> you determine what the regular patterns are, and you write
> tiny utility functions that wrap these in a single call.
>
> But what those typical patterns are depends on the application,
> so I don't think this belongs in the library. At least not in
> the C library.
>
> Language bindings for languages that work usually on a more
> abstract level could provide higher level functionality. For
> instance, for my Go binding, there is no setsockoption or
> getsockoption. There's a separate function for each option
> (which also works well with the godoc system), and there are
> even some more higher level functions.
>
> But what type of higher level functionality is required also
> depends on the language. Czmq has things that make no sense in a
> Go binding, because Go does things in a different way.
>
>
>
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