# Nanomsg
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Nanomsg is a modern messaging library that is the successor to ZeroMQ, written in C by Martin Sustrik and colleagues. The nanomsg library is licensed under MIT/X11 license. "nanomsg" is a trademark of 250bpm s.r.o.
- http://nanomsg.org/
- https://github.com/nanomsg/nanomsg
### Requirements
* Nanomsg 1.1.4
Installing nanomsg:
```
make deps
```
## Installation
```toml
[dependencies]
nanomsg = "0.7.2"
```
Simply import the crate to use it:
```rust
extern crate nanomsg;
```
## Creating a Socket
The basis of Nanomsg is a `Socket`. Each socket can be of a certain type. The type of a socket defines it's behaviour and limitations (such as only being able to send and not receive).
```rust
use nanomsg::{Socket, Protocol, Error};
/// Creating a new `Pull` socket type. Pull sockets can only receive messages
/// from a `Push` socket type.
fn create_socket() -> Result<(), Error> {
let mut socket = try!(Socket::new(Protocol::Pull));
Ok(())
}
```
Now, each socket that is created can be bound to *multiple* endpoints. Each binding can return an error, so
we'll take advantage of the `try!` macro.
```rust
use nanomsg::{Socket, Protocol, Error};
/// Creating a new `Pull` socket type. Pull sockets can only receive messages
/// from a `Push` socket type.
fn create_socket() -> Result<(), Error> {
let mut socket = try!(Socket::new(Protocol::Pull));
// Create a new endpoint bound to the following protocol string. This returns
// a new `Endpoint` that lives at-most the lifetime of the original socket.
let mut endpoint = try!(socket.bind("ipc:///tmp/pipeline.ipc"));
Ok(())
}
```
The socket is ready to be used now!
Because this is a `Pull` socket, we'll implement reading any messages we receive.
```rust
// ... After the endpoint we created, we'll start reading some data.
let mut msg = String::new();
loop {
try!(socket.read_to_string(&mut msg));
println!("We got a message: {}", &*msg);
msg.clear();
}
// ...
```
That's awesome! But... we have no packets being sent to the socket, so we'll read nothing. To fix this, let's implement the accompanying pair `Push` socket.
```rust
use nanomsg::{Socket, Protocol, Error};
fn pusher() -> Result<(), Error> {
let mut socket = try!(Socket::new(Protocol::Push));
let mut endpoint = try!(socket.connect("ipc:///tmp/pipeline.ipc"));
socket.write(b"message in a bottle");
endpoint.shutdown();
Ok(())
}
```
## Contributors
(In arbitrary order):
* Daniel Fagnan ([@TheHydroImpulse](https://github.com/thehydroimpulse))
* Jason E. Aten ([@glycerine](https://github.com/glycerine))
* David C. Bishop ([@dcbishop](https://github.com/dcbishop))
* Dennis Lawler ([@evenodder](https://github.com/evenodder))
* Zachary Tong ([@polyfractal](https://github.com/polyfractal))
* Dan Burkert ([@danburkert](https://github.com/danburkert))
* Benoît Labaere ([@blabaere](https://github.com/blabaere))
* Kevin Butler ([@Ryman](https://github.com/Ryman))
* Andrew ([@GGist](https://github.com/GGist))
* Chip Collier ([@photex](https://github.com/photex))
* Zeke Foppa ([@bfops](https://github.com/bfops))
* Philippe Delrieu ([@musitdev](https://github.com/musitdev))
* Daniel Kozlowski ([@dkhenry](https://github.com/dkhenry))
* Vinzent Steinberg ([@vks](https://github.com/vks))
* Paul Woolcock ([@pwoolcoc](https://github.com/pwoolcoc))
* Gabriel Martinez ([@mystal](https://github.com/mystal))
* wdv4758h ([@wdv4758h](https://github.com/wdv4758h))
* Alexander Morozov ([@alexandermorozov](https://github.com/alexandermorozov))
* Jan S ([@jan-schreib](https://github.com/jan-schreib))
* Thayne McCombs ([@tmccombs](https://github.com/tmccombs))
* Anders Bennehag ([@PureW](https://github.com/PureW))
* Peter Parkanyi ([@rsdy](https://github.com/rsdy))
* Jacek ([@forgerpl](https://github.com/forgerpl))
## License
The MIT License (MIT)
* Copyright (c) 2013-2014 Jason E. Aten, Ph.D. [@glycerine](https://github.com/glycerine)
* Copyright (c) 2014 Daniel Fagnan [@thehydroimpulse](https://github.com/thehydroimpulse)
* Copyright (c) 2015-2018 Benoît Labaere [@blabaere](https://github.com/blabaere)
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