nanonext (version 1.7.2)

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 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_open() method, which will attach a new context at $context. See nano().

See Also

request() and reply() for use with contexts.

Examples

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

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