Hi all, There is enormous confusion among new users about how to use the advanced socket types, and specifically XREP. Here is a (not unusual) question from IRC today:
"I need to implement a push-pull with a custom loadbalancing strategy, what would be the recommend method? adjust the source and create a new socket type? implement it using PAIR's?" It shows just how hard it is for new users to grasp these concepts, and the XREP/XREQ socket type names are IMO seriously to blame. I'd like to make it absolutely unambiguous that to do custom routing, one uses the socket type we call XREP, and achieve this by renaming that socket type to ROUTER. Thus one connects a ROUTER socket to other socket types, and the ROUTER socket does routing of messages according to an envelope that the application prepares. For symmetry I'd also suggest renaming XREQ but don't have a better name than the one already suggested in Ch3 of the Guide, namely DEALER. My suggestion would be to introduce ROUTER/DEALER as aliases in the next minor release of 0MQ, and to make these the official names in 3.0. REQ/REP can stay as they are, they are clear enough. Comments, objections? -- Pieter Hintjens iMatix _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
