[nanomsg] Re: stackable protocols

  • From: Drew Crawford <drew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: nanomsg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 01:02:18 -0500

Well yes, but the problem is how to get at that information for req, rep, xrep, 
xreq, and bus protocols.

As far as I know the answer today is something like “write 5 protocols that 
wrap each of those” but this is unsatisfactory and it does not scale with 
adding other features at the same time


On May 13, 2014, at 12:53 AM, Martin Sustrik <sustrik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Signed PGP part
> On 13/05/14 07:35, Drew Crawford wrote:
> 
> > Well one thing it could mean is something like “sender identifier”.
> > For example, if every socket had an identifier assigned upon
> > creation, every message was prepended by this identifier, and the
> > identifier was stripped from the message and made available via
> > getsocketopt separately.
> 
> That's exactly what you get on the protocol layer (protocol.h) struct
> nn_pipe* represents an individual peer. You get it when a message is
> received, you can send a message to it. You are even notified about
> added peers and removed peers.
> 
> Martin
> 
> 

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