On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 8:11 PM Serguei Khasimkhanov <serk...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hello all, > > I have a publisher thread that has a bunch of shared_ptrs to large chunks of > data. Occasionally I want to share some of those shared_ptrs with subscribers > (for read-only.) The problem is that ZeroMQ only allows sending binary data, > not C++ objects. How can I accomplish this?
You should serialize your object on publisher side -> send -> receive -> deserialize on subscriber. There is no other way except you doing some interprocess communication. Ref. https://www.google.com/search?q=c%2B%2B+serialization > > I was thinking I could allocate a copy of the shared_ptr on the heap, then > publish a pointer to it, but since I don't know when the subscribers are done > using that pointer, I don't know when to deallocate it. > > - Ser > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.org > https://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev -- Best Regards, Sergei Nikulov _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.org https://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
