[zeromq-dev] question on zloop_reader arg #2 type

[Pieter Hintjens]

Hi Steve,

Seems zloop escaped that general round up and needs catching and
fixing. It's quite clear that zloop_reader doesn't accept actors.

-Pieter

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 1:20 AM, Steven Butner <butner.se at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to get my first zactor implementation finished, compiled, and
> debugged.  I'm trying to create a zactor (and that seems to work OK).  Once
> the zactor has been created, I would like to include it in a zloop reactor
> but I'm having trouble with type matchup in the following code:
>
>    zactor_t* initActor = zactor_new( myInitActor, (void*)"do_init");
>    zloop_t* my_reactor = zloop_new();
>         :
>       <several other regular socket readers get registered to my_reactor>
>         :
>    int rc = zloop_reader( my_reactor, initActor, actorReader, (void*)"" );
>
> In the last line above, the compiler doesn't like the type of argument #2
> (which is zactor_t*, of course).  The CZMQ3.0.1 synopsis for zactor says, in
> part:
>
> "A zactor_t instance acts like a zsock_t and you can pass it to any CZMQ
> method that would take a zsock_t argument, including methods in zframe,
> zmsg, zstr, zpoller, and zloop."
>
> Apparently there is something here that I'm not understanding about the
> zactor_t and/or how to use it.  Any clarifications or pointers to examples
> where actor streams are included in zloop_readers would be greatly
> appreciated.  Note that I have tried to "fix" the compiler type mismatch by
> changing the 2nd argument of the zloop_reader() call above to be
> zactor_sock(initActor).  Indeed, this makes the compiler happy but when I
> run the program I get errno=88 (Socket operation on non-socket) when one of
> my lower-level zmq_poll functions attempts to include the initActor "socket"
> in its list of polled sockets.
>
>        Steve B
>
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