README.md

A Julia interface to ZeroMQ

ZMQ.jl is a [Julia] (http://julialang.org) interface to [ZeroMQ, The Intelligent Transport Layer] (http://zeromq.org).

This codebase has been tested to work with ZeroMQ version 2.2.0 and 3.2.2. The unit tests within this package run successfully on both versions of the library.

Installation

Pkg.add("ZMQ")

Install the ZeroMQ libraries for your OS using your favourite package manager.

Usage

using ZMQ

ctx=Context(1)
s1=Socket(ctx, REP)
s2=Socket(ctx, REQ)

ZMQ.bind(s1, "tcp://*:5555")
ZMQ.connect(s2, "tcp://localhost:5555")

ZMQ.send(s2, Message("test request"))
msg = ZMQ.recv(s1)
out=convert(IOStream, msg)
seek(out,0)
#read out::MemIO as usual, eg. read(out,...) or takebuf_string(out)
#or, conveniently, use ASCIIString[msg] to retrieve a string

ZMQ.send(s1, Message("test response"))
ZMQ.close(s1)
ZMQ.close(s2)
ZMQ.close(ctx)