I am a bit uncertain what the test attribute actually does in zproject. From looking it seems that it calls a test binary (I am guessing relative to the root) what if a library doesn't include a test or you don't want to run tests against it as its required.
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Pieter Hintjens <[email protected]> wrote: > The failing 'use.test' property comes from autoconf's use of calling a > method to test whether a library exists or not. You can see in > zproject/zproject_known_projects.xml how we define this for the > projects we support by default. > > For your main question, I'd start with some test code (outside a > project, just for learning) that uses a ZMQ_STREAM socket to talk to > your server. When this is working, you can wrap that in an actor that > also uses a pipe to talk to the outside world. Then it uses a zpoller > to work with these two sockets at once. > > There is not a lot of documentation on stream sockets, so I'd use the > test cases (libzmq/tests/*stream*.cpp) as a starting point. Also the > zmq_socket man page. > > -Pieter > > > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Greg Young <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have been playing with czmq/zactor/zproject/etc the last few days >> and have decided to do a small project to learn a bit more. Thus far I >> am reasonably comfortable with zproject and how it works. >> >> The project I have decided to write is a client library for EventStore >> http://github.com/eventstore/eventstore. The protocol already exists >> and there are many clients. The protocol is basically full duplex tcp >> with basic framing of protobuf serialized messages. All operations are >> async. >> >> One issue I am running into is I am not quite sure how to structure my >> connection actor (having dealt in actor systems before guessed I would >> have a connection actor). From looking I havn't found a reasonable way >> of building up a tcp client inside of an actor where everything is >> asynchronous eg if I use direct OS calls how do I handle both >> servicing the TCP socket and servicing my message pump on the actor? >> There are currently very limited numbers of examples up on zactor (and >> most are doing very basic things). Any help with how to structure this >> or similar examples that may exist would be helpful. >> >> A second small issue. I have been unable to get zproject to use any >> external libraries. When adding any library have tried both tarballs >> and repositories I always end up with an error message of "undefined >> expression use.test" from zproject_autotools.gsl:171. I don't have >> enough experience yet with zproject to be able to resolve this. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Greg >> >> -- >> Studying for the Turing test >> _______________________________________________ >> zeromq-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev -- Studying for the Turing test _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
