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Greg
Greg

Reputation: 8915

How to send a message of different lengths without trailing bytes \x00?

What does 20 inside message() mean vs the 20 after message.data(), in the below code?

zmq::message_t message(20);
snprintf ((char *) message.data(), 20 ,"%05d %d %d", zipcode, temperature, relhumidity);
publisher.send(message);

From reading the documentation, message(20) initialises the message to be 20 bytes long. What does the 20 after message.data(), do?

How to change the size of the message to send the message without trailing bytes \x00? Can "%05d %d %d", zipcode, temperature, relhumidity be declared outside and the length of that variable be used to initiate the message and send it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 324

Answers (1)

cdhowie
cdhowie

Reputation: 168988

You can use snprintf() with a limit of zero to measure how large the data will be before allocating the space for it:

auto length = std::snprintf(nullptr, 0, "%05d %d %d", zipcode, temperature, relhumidity) + 1;
// +1 to account for null terminating character.

zmq::message_t message(length);

std::snprintf(
    static_cast<char *>(message.data()), length,
    "%05d %d %d", zipcode, temperature, relhumidity
);

publisher.send(message);

You could also format into a local buffer that you know is large enough, measure the string's length, then copy it:

char buffer[64];

auto length = std::snprintf(buffer, 64, "%05d %d %d", zipcode, temperature, relhumidity) + 1;

zmq::message_t message(length);

std::copy(buffer, buffer + length, static_cast<char *>(message.data());

publisher.send(message);

Upvotes: 1

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