brokowski/perf/startPublisher.js

RESTful publish/subscribe toolkit including broker, publisher and subscriber

/**
  * Most of this stuff is used from the performance tests of node-zmq.
  * 
  * Copyright (c) 2011 TJ Holowaychuk
  * Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 Justin Tulloss

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var assert = require('assert');

if (process.argv.length != 6) {
  console.log('usage: remote_thr <broker> <event> <message-size> <message-count>')
  process.exit(1)
}

var connect_to = process.argv[2]
var event = process.argv[3]
var message_size = Number(process.argv[4])
var message_count = Number(process.argv[5])
var message = new Buffer(message_size)
message.fill('h');
message = message.toString();

var counter = 0
  , i = 0;

pub = require('../brokowski').pub({broker: connect_to});

function send(){
  for (; i < message_count; i++) {
    pub.send(event, message);
  }
}

// because of what seems to be a bug in node-zmq, we would lose messages
// if we start sending immediately after calling connect(), so to make this
// benchmark behave well, we wait a bit...

setTimeout(send, 1000);