SharpNng is a lightweight low-level managed wrapper around NNG a Lightweight Messaging Library.

NOTE: This project is archived as I had no use in the end about it. The native version of NNG used by SharpNng is 1.5.2

Features

Strict mapping with the C API
Pure DllImport library via using static nng;
Compatible with netstandard2.0 and netstandard2.1+
Fast interop with Span friendly API.

Usage

Install the SharpNng NuGet Package to your project.

using static nng;
 // port of https://nanomsg.org/gettingstarted/nng/reqrep.html
string ipcName = $"ipc:///tmp/SharpNng_{Guid.NewGuid():N}.ipc";
var sync = new EventWaitHandle(false, EventResetMode.ManualReset);
void Node0()
{
    nng_socket sock = default;
    int result = nng_rep0_open(ref sock);
    nng_assert(result);
    try
    {
        nng_listener listener = default;
        result = nng_listen(sock, ipcName, ref listener, 0);
        nng_assert(result);
        IntPtr buf;
        size_t sz = default;
        TestContext.Out.WriteLine("Server: Listening");
        sync.Set();
        unsafe
        {
            result = nng_recv(sock, new IntPtr(&buf), ref sz, NNG_FLAG_ALLOC);
            nng_assert(result);
        }
        Assert.AreEqual(4, sz.Value.ToInt64());
        nng_free(buf, sz);
    }
    finally
    {
        result = nng_close(sock);
    }
};
void Node1()
{
    TestContext.Out.WriteLine("Client: Started");
    nng_socket sock = default;
    int result = nng_req0_open(ref sock);
    nng_assert(result);
    try
    {
        nng_dialer dialer = default;
        result = nng_dial(sock, ipcName, ref dialer, 0);
        nng_assert(result);
        TestContext.Out.WriteLine("Client: Connected");
        unsafe
        {
            int value = 0x6afedead;
            result = nng_send(sock, new IntPtr(&value), 4, 0);
            nng_assert(result);
        }
    }
    finally
    {
        result = nng_close(sock);
    }
};
// Start the server
var thread = new Thread(Node0)
{
    IsBackground = true
};
thread.Start();
// Wait for the server to start
sync.WaitOne(1000);
// Run the client
Node1();

Platforms

SharpNng is supported on the following platforms:

win-x64, win-x86, win-arm64, win-arm
linux-x64, linux-arm64, linux-arm
osx-x64, osx-arm64

Note that the Linux version might probably only work on debian derivatives for now...

How to Build?

You need to install the .NET 6 SDK. Then from the root folder:

$ dotnet build src -c Release

In order to rebuild the native binaries, you need to run the build scripts from ext

License

This software is released under the BSD-Clause 2 license.

Author

Alexandre Mutel aka xoofx.