About

This is a LuaJIT FFI-based binding to the nanomsg library.

It exposes the raw API, as well as a higher-level convenience layer.

Installation

First, make sure that the nanomsg shared library is available on your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Then, you can either:

• simply put nanomsg-ffi.lua somewhere on your LUA_PATH;

• clone this repository and run make install;

• install the latest release with the LuaRocks package manager:

    luarocks install "https://raw.github.com/nanomsg/luajit-nanomsg/master/rockspec/luajit-nanomsg-scm-1.rockspec"
  

Usage

local nn = require 'nanomsg-ffi'

-- nn.C exposes all of the nanomsg C API functions
print( nn.C.nn_errno() )

-- But there is a friendlier API available directly from nn:
print( nn.errno() )
print( nn.EAGAIN )

-- For convenience, names for errno's are available in nn.E
assert( nn.E[ nn.EAGAIN ] == 'EAGAIN' )

-- Use the nn.socket class rather than the functions in nn.C
local req, id, rc, err

req, err = nn.socket( nn.REQ )
assert( req, nn.strerror(err) )

id, err = req:connect( "tcp://127.0.0.1:555" )
assert( id, nn.strerror(err) )

local msg = "hello world"
rc, err = req:send( msg, #msg )
assert( rc > 0, nn.strerror(err) )

Socket object

Socket is nanomsg's primary object. Socket object can instantiated with nn.socket( protocol, options), where protocol is the nanomsg enum, such as nn.SUB, and options is a table with the following optional fields:

• close_on_gc: Default is true. When true, the socket's close method will be invoked upon garbage collection. close may block, so one may to wish to invoke it manually at a determined time.

• domain: Default is nn.AF_SP. The domain of the socket. Options are nn.AF_SP and nn.AF_SP_RAW.

TODO: generate LDoc documentation and link to it

Running the test suite

Test require cwtest. Either install it on your system or just put cwtest.lua somewhere on your LUA_PATH, then run make test.

Other nanomsg Lua Bindings

If you are looking for a nanomsg binding that can work with plain Lua, as well as LuaJIT, check out lua-nanomsg.

Roadmap

This is usable now. The future holds:

• more documentation
• more examples and performance tests
• more hand-holding classes for nanomsg concepts
• bind nn_sendmsg and nn_recvmsg and associated control structures

License

Copyright (c) 2013 Evan Wies <evan at neomantra dot net>

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