Search code examples
javazeromqjzmq

Does ZMQ compress messages?

I'm interested in finding out if ZMQ already compresses messages before sending them out so as to not do this myself which would be redundant to compress a message twice.

If it does do this is it automatic, or is there an option param to specify?

I'm using java but it really doesn't matter I guess for libzmq it doesn't matter.

Solution

  • ZMQ is not performing any serialization. You can send messages via socket as String or byte[]. See example here: http://zguide.zeromq.org/java:wuserver

    publisher.send(update, 0);

    where update is String.

    In general I recommend guide here http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all