[PROTON-2247] [c] Proactor API to support 'raw' TCP connections using the proactor event loop

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: proton-c-0.32.0
• Component/s: proton-c
• Assignee: Andrew Stitcher
• Reporter: Andrew Stitcher
• Created: 09/Jul/20 14:36
• Updated: 27/Aug/20 14:40
• Resolved: 27/Aug/20 14:40

Description

There are applications that use amqp together with some other protocol (http for example). It is currently difficult to combine other TCP use with amqp use when using proton and the proactor.

It will be useful to be able to combine using 'raw' TCP connections with AMQP connections in a single proactor event loop.

This will allow you to write application combining multiple protocols with AMQP without having to use multiple event loops and hence probably threads.

 

NOTE: Only the epoll proactor implementation currently supports this. For tracking implementation of support for Libuv and Windows iocp, see PROTON-2262 and PROTON-2263 respectively.

Issue Links

• causes: PROTON-2261 [c] Proactor: pn_proactor_disconnect() does not disconnect raw connections
• causes: PROTON-2265 Build fails with older CMake version 2.8.12
• Parent Feature: PROTON-2262 [c] Proactor: Libuv implementation of raw connections
• Parent Feature: PROTON-2263 [c] Proactor: Windows iocp implementation of raw connections