nanonext (version 0.5.4)

context: Open Context

Description

Open a new Context to be used with a Socket. The purpose of a Context is to permit applications to share a single socket, with its underlying dialers and listeners, while still benefiting from separate state tracking.

Usage

context(socket)

Value

A new Context (object of class 'nanoContext' and 'nano').

Arguments

socket

a Socket.

Details

Contexts allow the independent and concurrent use of stateful operations using the same socket. For example, two different contexts created on a rep socket can each receive requests, and send replies to them, without any regard to or interference with each other.

Only the following protocols support creation of contexts: req, rep, sub (in a pub/sub pattern), surveyor, respondent.

To send and receive over a context use send and recv or their async counterparts send_aio and recv_aio.

For nano objects, use the $context() method, which will return a new context.

Examples

s <- socket("req", listen = "inproc://nanonext")
ctx <- context(s)
ctx
close(ctx)
close(s)

n <- nano("req", listen = "inproc://nanonext")
ctx <- n$context()
ctx
close(ctx)
n$close()