Receive a message from the socket referenced by the socket argument.

The zmq_recv() function shall receive a message from the socket referenced by the socket argument. If there are no messages available on the specified socket, by default the function shall block until the request can be satisfied. A non-blocking receive can be obtained by setting dont.wait to TRUE If there are no messages available on the specified socket, the receive.socket() call will return NULL immediately.

Usage

receive.socket(socket, unserialize=TRUE, dont.wait=FALSE)
receive.null.msg(socket)
receive.string(socket)
receive.int(socket)
receive.double(socket)

Arguments

socket

a zmq socket object

unserialize

whether to call unserialize on the received data

dont.wait

defaults to false, for blocking receive. Set to TRUE for non-blocking receive.

Value

the value sent from the remote server or NULL on failure. If dont.wait was TRUE and a message was not immediately available for receipt, NULL is returned and get.zmq.errno() is set to 11 or get.zmq.strerror() is set to EAGAIN.

References

http://www.zeromq.org http://api.zeromq.org http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all

Author

ZMQ was written by Martin Sustrik <sustrik@250bpm.com> and Martin Lucina <mato@kotelna.sk>. rzmq was written by Whit Armstrong.

See also

connect.socket,bind.socket,receive.socket,send.socket,poll.socket

Examples

if (FALSE) {
library(rzmq)

remote.exec <- function(out.socket,in.socket,fun,...) {
    send.socket(out.socket,data=list(fun=fun,args=list(...)))
    receive.socket(in.socket)
}

context = init.context()
out.socket = init.socket(context,"ZMQ_PUSH")
bind.socket(out.socket,"tcp://*:5557")

in.socket = init.socket(context,"ZMQ_PULL")
bind.socket(in.socket,"tcp://*:5558")


myfun <- function(x) {
    sum(abs(x))
}

remote.exec(out.socket,in.socket,myfun,rnorm(1e3))

}