Identity

//
// Demonstrate identities as used by the request-reply pattern. Run this
// program by itself. Note that the utility functions s_ are provided by
// zhelpers.h. It gets boring for everyone to keep repeating this code.
//

#include "zhelpers.h"

int main (void)
{
void *context = zmq_init (1);

void *sink = zmq_socket (context, ZMQ_ROUTER);
zmq_bind (sink, "inproc://example");

// First allow 0MQ to set the identity
void *anonymous = zmq_socket (context, ZMQ_REQ);
zmq_connect (anonymous, "inproc://example");
s_send (anonymous, "ROUTER uses a generated UUID");
s_dump (sink);

// Then set the identity ourself
void *identified = zmq_socket (context, ZMQ_REQ);
zmq_setsockopt (identified, ZMQ_IDENTITY, "Hello", 5);
zmq_connect (identified, "inproc://example");
s_send (identified, "ROUTER socket uses REQ's socket identity");
s_dump (sink);

zmq_close (sink);
zmq_close (anonymous);
zmq_close (identified);
zmq_term (context);
return 0;
}