ZMQ.jl is a [Julia] (http://julialang.org) interface to [ZeroMQ, The Intelligent Transport Layer] (http://zeromq.org).
This codebase has been tested to work with ZeroMQ version 2.2.0 and 3.2.2. The unit tests within this package run successfully on both versions of the library.
Pkg.add("ZMQ")Install the ZeroMQ libraries for your OS using your favourite package manager.
using ZMQ
ctx=Context(1)
s1=Socket(ctx, REP)
s2=Socket(ctx, REQ)
ZMQ.bind(s1, "tcp://*:5555")
ZMQ.connect(s2, "tcp://localhost:5555")
ZMQ.send(s2, Message("test request"))
msg = ZMQ.recv(s1)
out=convert(IOStream, msg)
seek(out,0)
#read out::MemIO as usual, eg. read(out,...) or takebuf_string(out)
#or, conveniently, use ASCIIString[msg] to retrieve a string
ZMQ.send(s1, Message("test response"))
ZMQ.close(s1)
ZMQ.close(s2)
ZMQ.close(ctx)
If you are using Windows and get an error Provider PackageManager failed to satisfy dependency zmq, you may need to restart Julia and run Pkg.build("ZMQ") again. See issue #69 for more details.