[zeromq-dev] Trouble sending from ROUTER to DEALER

[Pieter Hintjens]

It is fairly simple:

- use CZMQ and switch from C++ to C (:-)
- use zframe_recv or zmsg_recv and zmsg_pop

-Pieter

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Riskybiz <riskybizlive at live.com> wrote:
> Ok.  I’ve been trying to get those 5 bytes of the ROUTER generated
> “identity” into a C++ variable so that it can be stored in memory and used
> to prepend an outbound message at some later time.  Can anyone suggest how
> the identity data stored in a zmq_msg_t object and pointed to by:
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> zmq_msg_data(&messageIn)
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> could be stored in a variable which;
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> 1.       Is easily printable on the console.
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> 2.       Can be simply copied into a zmq_msg_t object to form the identity
> frame of a message sent via a ROUTER socket.
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> 3.       Works without knowing that auto generated identities are of any
> specific size.
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> Stuck.
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> Riskybiz.
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> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 22:45:52 +0800
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> From: KIU Shueng Chuan <nixchuan at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [zeromq-dev] Trouble sending from ROUTER to DEALER
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> In your multipartmsg.h file, you have code that does the following:
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> int32_t id = *(static_cast<int*>(zmq_msg_data(&messageIn)))
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> You have assumed that the auto generated identity is 4 bytes long, whereas
> it is in fact 5 bytes long.
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> So when sending a reply, you would have sent a truncated identity, which the
> router socket know nothing about.
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> More generally, you shouldn't need to write your code to "know" that auto
> generated identities are of any specific size.
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