This is more a comment on the documentation than anything else.
All the examples in the guide that I have looked at specify an explicit
port when using tcp. For example:
ret = zmq_bind(socket, "tcp://*:5555");
What I had to work out for myself by reading source code was that
this works:
ret = zmq_bind(sock, "tcp://*:*");
ret = zmq_getsockopt(sock, ZMQ_LAST_ENDPOINT, endpoint, &optlen);
if (ret == 0) {
printf("Bound at %s\n", endpoint);
}
Some would say "Well that is obvious", but it would be nice if the actual
accepted syntax for the different protocols was completely specified
somewhere in the documentation. None of the examples use this socket
option call and it has no mention outside the man page for getsockopt,
there also seems to be no way to collect all the existing bindings on a
socket rather than just the last one.
Another observation here is that the returned binding in this example is
less than useful:
Bound at tcp://0.0.0.0:49671
In order to connect anything to this, I would have to dismantle it and
replace the 0.0.0.0 with a host name or iP address. Looks like there
is code in the bowels of the library to split these apart, but the library
API does not have any tools for manipulating zeromq socket addresses.
Steve
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