Hi,

On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 05:42:15 pm ext Bartosh Wroblevksy wrote:
> Please bear with me, as it is late, and I may not write intelligibly. I am
> using the publish-subscribe and it's very useful. What is not so clear to
> me and (probably buried in the wonderful documentation) is if there is a
> method that lets me know if  QValueSpace::initValueSpaceServer() has not
> been called by another  process for the paths I want to reserve. In other
> words, is there a method that  my process can use that tells me that I can
> declare a publisher and subscriber without any problem for the paths I
> want and that it will work. I apologize in advance if this is clearly in
> the documentation.

There is no such function.  It is expected that 
QValueSpace::initValueSpaceServer() is only called by the dedicated server 
process.  All other processes should only be connecting as clients.

One way of testing if the server is active is to construct a 
QValueSpacePublisher or QValueSpaceSubscriber with a valid path and check the 
result of the isConnected().  However this will initialise the application as 
a client which cannot be undone to re-initialise as a server.

You can check if the a server process is actively listening to the 
communications socket.  You can do this with QLocalSocket.  Pass 
"qt/valuespace_shmlayer" as the server to connect to or "qt/" + 
$QT_VALUESPACE_SHMLAYER environment variable if that is being set.  Failure to 
connect would mean that the server is not running and 
QValueSpace::initValueSpaceServer() should be called.

Calling QValueSpace::initValueSpaceServer() is, currently, only required when 
using the shared memory layer, which is only used on Linux and other Unix like 
operating systems.

Cheers,

-- 
Aaron McCarthy, Software Engineer
Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks
Level 1, 53 Brandl St,
Brisbane Technology Park, Eight Mile Plains, 
QLD, Australia, 4113
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