On Jul 4, 2012, at 5:22 AM, Daniel Krikun wrote: > Hello, > > I'm building a service-oriented system. A client sends a request to create > some entity on the server. The server creates the entity and then replies > with the entity's handle, so that the client can send more requests regarding > the entity (i.e. modify/delete it). > I need to match the request to create an entity with the reply containing its > handle (otherwise a client could potentially confuse between different > entities' handles). > > Is there any recommended way do that in zeromq? Any 'best practices'?
I usually use the Majordomo protocol / pattern as the basis for most of the work I do. > If I understand that correctly, using REQ-REP socket combination ensures that > the reply will match the request, however: > 1. The server is multi-threaded and does not ensures first-come-first-served > policy You solve this by using Dealer/Router. > 2. Some request are left without reply intentionally, which is not possible > with REQ-REP, so I actually use DEALER-DEALER combination. You should use Dealer/ROUTER instead of Dealer/Dealer. cr _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.org http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
