afa311 / msghub

Lightweight publisher/subscriber C++ library based on boost asio

MSGHUB

This is a lightweight asynchronous message bus C++ library based on Boost.Asio. It allows to connect, send and receive custom messages to virtually any number of local or network clients.

The idea is simple... there are topics, subscribers and publishers.

One client create a msghub instance and others are connecting to it.

Subscriber specify the topic name of its interest. All clients publish message into a topic and hub distribute messages across all subscribers.

Message is a byte array or a string.

Array may contain any serialized user data, but it's out of scope here.

Examples

I. Create hub, subscribe on "any topic" and publish "new message" into "any topic":

	// Message handler
	void on_message(const std::string& topic, std::vector<char>& message)
	{
	   // handle message
	}

	int main()
	{
		boost::asio::io_service io_service;
		// Create hub to listen on 0xbee port
		msghub msghub(io_service);
		msghub.create(0xbee);
		// Subscribe on "any topic"
		msghub.subscribe("any topic", on_message);
		// Current or any another client
		msghub.publish("any topic", "new message");
		io_service.run();
	}

II. Connect to hub on "localhost" and publish "new message" into "any topic":

	int main()
	{
		boost::asio::io_service io_service;
		msghub msghub(io_service);
		msghub.connect("localhost", 0xbee);
		msghub.publish("any topic", "new message");
		io_service.run();
	}