utils.monitor

Module: utils.monitor

Module holding utility and convenience functions for zmq event monitoring.

Functions

zmq.utils.monitor.parse_monitor_message(msg)

decode zmq_monitor event messages.

Parameters:msg (list(bytes)) –

zmq multipart message that has arrived on a monitor PAIR socket.

First frame is:

16 bit event id
32 bit event value
no padding

Second frame is the endpoint as a bytestring

Returns:event – event description as dict with the keys event, value, and endpoint.
Return type:dict
zmq.utils.monitor.recv_monitor_message(socket, flags=0)

Receive and decode the given raw message from the monitoring socket and return a dict.

Requires libzmq ≥ 4.0

The returned dict will have the following entries:
event : int, the event id as described in libzmq.zmq_socket_monitor value : int, the event value associated with the event, see libzmq.zmq_socket_monitor endpoint : string, the affected endpoint
Parameters:
  • socket (zmq PAIR socket) – The PAIR socket (created by other.get_monitor_socket()) on which to recv the message
  • flags (bitfield (int)) – standard zmq recv flags
Returns:

event – event description as dict with the keys event, value, and endpoint.

Return type:

dict