[zeromq-dev] Forwarding ROUTER to PUB

[Michael Scofield]

I think this may be achieved by the following arch:

1. Establish 2 ROUTER sockets, router #1 is responsible for receiving 
incoming requests, and router #2 is connected to router #1;

2. Establish a DEALER socket per thread, and connect to router #2. And 
upon connected, tell router #2 its interested "topic".

3. Whenever a request comes in, router #1 just send it to router #2. 
Router #2 send the message to different thread through the DEALER socket 
according to the DEALER socket's interested "topic" and the message's type.

I believe the above arch is some pattern in the guide (however, I just 
can't recall it).

On 2014?01?16? 23:54, Lindley French wrote:
> A problem I was wrestling with was, how do I deal with a TCP 
> connection where messages of different types may arrive, and may need 
> to be dealt with in different threads? The TCP socket can't be touched 
> directly by multiple threads, of course. The obvious solution was to 
> immediately forward messages arriving on the TCP socket to an inproc 
> socket.
>
> I then took it one step further: why not make that inproc socket a PUB 
> socket and make the first part of each message be a topic identifier, 
> so that whichever thread knows how to deal with a particular message 
> can just subscribe to it and ignore the rest?
>
> That's a great design, right up until I try to do it with the TCP 
> socket being a ROUTER. Now, no matter what the first part of the sent 
> message is, the identity will end up being the first part on the 
> receiving end. The PUB/SUB won't work without some tweaking.
>
> I don't want to just drop the identity; that's useful information. I 
> could swap the first two parts; that will work, but it's unintuitive 
> and could cause confusion down the road.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
>
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