[zeromq-dev] Pattern for clean shutdown of a proxy loop

[Pieter Hintjens]

CZMQ has its own steerable proxy so that it can run on older versions
of libzmq. Also, some optimizations, but that's secondary. Also,
wrapping libzmq's method is extra work, it turns out.

The zmq_steerable_proxy method is quite recent so hasn't been wrapped
by other bindings yet.

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:58 PM, Cosmo Harrigan
<cosmo.harrigan at singularityu.org> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. I took a look, and my understanding is that the CZMQ
> zproxy class waits for messages from both a backend and a pipe (which is a
> PAIR socket to expose the API) and updates a local variable 'stopped' which
> ends the loop when the pipe receives the 'STOP' command.
>
> And it refers to that as a 'steerable proxy'.
>
> Then, I found that there is a class in libzmq called zmq_proxy_steerable
> (http://api.zeromq.org/4-1:zmq-proxy-steerable), which seems to offer
> exactly what I was asking about.
>
> Why isn't CZMQ zproxy using zmq_proxy_steerable?
>
> For C++ programming, cppzmq doesn't wrap either of those classes. Niether
> does zmqpp.
>
> So, I'm wondering, what pattern do other people who are using ZeroMQ in C++
> currently follow in this case to control their proxy loops? I suppose one
> solution is the one mentioned in the other thread, namely, wrapping CZMQ in
> your C++ application. Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Cosmo
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Pieter Hintjens <ph at imatix.com> wrote:
>>
>> You can look at the CZMQ zproxy class to see one way to do this.
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Cosmo Harrigan
>> <cosmo.harrigan at singularityu.org> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > What is the best practice when you are creating a loop that functions
>> > like
>> > the zmq_proxy device, to bind a PULL socket that is fed by a backend
>> > ventilator with a frontend PUB socket, in order to properly handle a
>> > clean
>> > shutdown?
>> >
>> > Most of the examples on the zguide just show "while (1)" with a loop
>> > that
>> > never terminates. What's the suggested way of signaling to the loop
>> > which is
>> > running in its own thread that it is time to shut down?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Cosmo
>> >
>> >
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