/* Copyright (c) 2007-2009 FastMQ Inc. This file is part of 0MQ. 0MQ is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Lesser GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. 0MQ is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the Lesser GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the Lesser GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ #ifndef __ZMQ_H_INCLUDED__ #define __ZMQ_H_INCLUDED__ #ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" { #endif #include #if defined ZMQ_BUILDING_LIBZMQ_WITH_MSVC #define ZMQ_EXPORT __declspec(dllexport) #else #define ZMQ_EXPORT #endif // Maximal size of "Very Small Message". VSMs are passed by value // to avoid excessive memory allocation/deallocation. // If VMSs larger than 255 bytes are required, type of 'vsm_size' // field in zmq_msg_t structure should be modified accordingly. #define ZMQ_MAX_VSM_SIZE 30 // Message & notification types. #define ZMQ_GAP 1 #define ZMQ_DELIMITER 31 #define ZMQ_VSM 32 // Socket options. #define ZMQ_HWM 1 #define ZMQ_LWM 2 #define ZMQ_SWAP 3 #define ZMQ_MASK 4 #define ZMQ_AFFINITY 5 #define ZMQ_IDENTITY 6 #define ZMQ_SUBSCRIBE 7 #define ZMQ_UNSUBSCRIBE 8 // The operation should be performed in non-blocking mode. I.e. if it cannot // be processed immediately, error should be returned with errno set to EAGAIN. #define ZMQ_NOBLOCK 1 // zmq_send should not flush the message downstream immediately. Instead, it // should batch ZMQ_NOFLUSH messages and send them downstream only if zmq_flush // is invoked. This is an optimisation for cases where several messages are // sent in a single business transaction. However, the effect is measurable // only in extremely high-perf scenarios (million messages a second or so). // If that's not your case, use standard flushing send instead. See exchange // example for illustration of ZMQ_NOFLUSH functionality. #define ZMQ_NOFLUSH 2 // Socket to communicate with a single peer. Allows for a singe connect or a // single accept. There's no message routing or message filtering involved. #define ZMQ_P2P 0 // Socket to distribute data. Recv fuction is not implemented for this socket // type. Messages are distributed in fanout fashion to all peers. #define ZMQ_PUB 1 // Socket to subscribe to distributed data. Send function is not implemented // for this socket type. However, subscribe function can be used to modify the // message filter. #define ZMQ_SUB 2 // Socket to send requests on and receive replies from. Requests are // load-balanced among all the peers. This socket type doesn't allow for more // recv's that there were send's. #define ZMQ_REQ 3 // Socket to receive requests from and send replies to. This socket type allows // only an alternated sequence of recv's and send's. Each send is routed to // the peer that the previous recv delivered message from. #define ZMQ_REP 4 // Prototype for the message body deallocation functions. // It is deliberately defined in the way to comply with standard C free. typedef void (zmq_free_fn) (void *data); // A message. If 'shared' is true, message content pointed to by 'content' // is shared, i.e. reference counting is used to manage its lifetime // rather than straighforward malloc/free. struct zmq_msg_content is // not declared in the API. struct zmq_msg_t { void *content; unsigned char shared; unsigned char vsm_size; unsigned char vsm_data [ZMQ_MAX_VSM_SIZE]; }; // Initialise an empty message (zero bytes long). ZMQ_EXPORT int zmq_msg_init (struct zmq_msg_t *msg); // Initialise a message 'size' bytes long. // // Errors: ENOMEM - the size is too large to allocate. ZMQ_EXPORT int zmq_msg_init_size (struct zmq_msg_t *msg, size_t size); // Initialise a message from an existing buffer. Message isn't copied, // instead 0MQ infrastructure take ownership of the buffer and call // deallocation functio (ffn) once it's not needed anymore. ZMQ_EXPORT int zmq_msg_init_data (struct zmq_msg_t *msg, void *data, size_t size, zmq_free_fn *ffn); // Deallocate the message. ZMQ_EXPORT int zmq_msg_close (struct zmq_msg_t *msg); // Move the content of the message from 'src' to 'dest'. The content isn't // copied, just moved. 'src' is an empty message after the call. Original // content of 'dest' message is deallocated. ZMQ_EXPORT int zmq_msg_move (struct zmq_msg_t *dest, struct zmq_msg_t *src); // Copy the 'src' message to 'dest'. The content isn't copied, instead // reference count is increased. Don't modify the message data after the // call as they are shared between two messages. Original content of 'dest' // message is deallocated. ZMQ_EXPORT int zmq_msg_copy (struct zmq_msg_t *dest, struct zmq_msg_t *src); // Returns pointer to message data. ZMQ_EXPORT void *zmq_msg_data (struct zmq_msg_t *msg); // Return size of message data (in bytes). ZMQ_EXPORT size_t zmq_msg_size (struct zmq_msg_t *msg); // Returns type of the message. ZMQ_EXPORT int zmq_msg_type (struct zmq_msg_t *msg); // Initialise 0MQ context. 'app_threads' specifies maximal number // of application threads that can have open sockets at the same time. // 'io_threads' specifies the size of thread pool to handle I/O operations. // // Errors: EINVAL - one of the arguments is less than zero or there are no // threads declared at all. ZMQ_EXPORT void *zmq_init (int app_threads, int io_threads); // Deinitialise 0MQ context including all the open sockets. Closing // sockets after zmq_term has been called will result in undefined behaviour. ZMQ_EXPORT int zmq_term (void *context); // Open a socket. // // Errors: EINVAL - invalid socket type. // EMFILE - the number of application threads entitled to hold open // sockets at the same time was exceeded. ZMQ_EXPORT void *zmq_socket (void *context, int type); // Close the socket. ZMQ_EXPORT int zmq_close (void *s); // Sets an option on the socket. // EINVAL - unknown option, a value with incorrect length or an invalid value. ZMQ_EXPORT int zmq_setsockopt (void *s, int option_, const void *optval_, size_t optvallen_); // Bind the socket to a particular address. ZMQ_EXPORT int zmq_bind (void *s, const char *addr); // Connect the socket to a particular address. ZMQ_EXPORT int zmq_connect (void *s, const char *addr); // Send the message 'msg' to the socket 's'. 'flags' argument can be // combination of following values: // ZMQ_NOBLOCK - if message cannot be sent, return immediately. // ZMQ_NOFLUSH - message won't be sent immediately. It'll be sent with either // subsequent flushing send or explicit call to zmq_flush // function. // // Errors: EAGAIN - message cannot be sent at the moment (applies only to // non-blocking send). // ENOTSUP - function isn't supported by particular socket type. ZMQ_EXPORT int zmq_send (void *s, struct zmq_msg_t *msg, int flags); // Flush the messages that were send using ZMQ_NOFLUSH flag down the stream. // // Errors: ENOTSUP - function isn't supported by particular socket type. ZMQ_EXPORT int zmq_flush (void *s); // Send a message from the socket 's'. 'flags' argument can be combination // of following values: // ZMQ_NOBLOCK - if message cannot be received, return immediately. // // Errors: EAGAIN - message cannot be received at the moment (applies only to // non-blocking receive). // ENOTSUP - function isn't supported by particular socket type. ZMQ_EXPORT int zmq_recv (void *s, struct zmq_msg_t *msg, int flags); // Helper functions used by perf tests so that they don't have to care // about minutiae of time-related functions on different OS platforms. ZMQ_EXPORT void *zmq_stopwatch_start (); ZMQ_EXPORT unsigned long zmq_stopwatch_stop (void *watch_); ZMQ_EXPORT void zmq_sleep (int seconds_); #ifdef __cplusplus } #endif #endif