[zeromq-dev] zproto and Malamute/Majordomo

[Lucas Russo]

Pieter Hintjens <ph <at> imatix.com> writes:

> 
> In general zproto is aimed at binary framing that changes very rarely.
> This is excellent for protocols like filemq, ZRE, or Malamute. It's
> often poor for application RPC protocols.
> 
> You can easily adapt the zproto generators; they are plastic and
> easily user-customizable. You do need to learn basics of the GSL
> language, which is straight-forward. In general as Joe says, code
> generation is a good tool to know.
> 
> This doesn't exclude adding (back) the encode/decode API to zproto so
> it can work on top of Malamute, Zyre, etc.
> 
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:10 AM, Joe McIlvain <joe.eli.mac <at> gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > Lucas,
> >
> > It may well be that code generation is a good choice for solving your
> > problem but zproto (one specific set of code generators) is not.  You can
> > always use GSL to write your own code generator scripts that are verbose 
and
> > descriptive.  Codecs generated by zproto are not all verbose or 
descriptive.
> >
> 

Hi,

Ok, I see. I think this is what the "A Protocol for REST over ZeroMQ" blog 
thread is all about and XRAP might be a good pattern for some applications.

Are there any thoughts and/or advancements on adding XRAP on top of Malamute? 
I saw that there are some comments about this on the mailing list.

Regards,

Lucas