Asynchronous client-server in Clojure

(ns asyncsrv
(:refer-clojure :exclude [send])
(:require [zhelpers :as mq])
(:import (org.zeromq ZMQ$Poller)
(java.util Random)))

;;
;; Asynchronous client-to-server (DEALER to ROUTER)
;;
;; While this example runs in a single process, that is just to make
;; it easier to start and stop the example. Each task has its own
;; context and conceptually acts as a separate process.
;;
;; Isaiah Peng <moc.liamg|airassi#moc.liamg|airassi>

;; Accept a request and reply with the same text a random number of
;; times, with random delays between replies.

(defrecord ServerWorker []
Runnable
(run [this]
(let [ctx (mq/context 1)
srandom (Random. (System/currentTimeMillis))
worker (mq/socket ctx mq/dealer)]
(mq/connect worker "inproc://backend")
;; The DEALER socket gives us the address envelope and message
(let [msg (-> worker mq/recv-all last String.)]
(dotimes [i (.nextInt srandom 5)]
(Thread/sleep (* 1000 (.nextInt srandom 0)))
(mq/send worker msg))))))

;; ---------------------------------------------------------------------
;; This is our client task
;; It connects to the server, and then sends a request once per second
;; It collects responses as they arrive, and it prints them out. We will
;; run several client tasks in parallel, each with a different random ID.

(defrecord ClientTask [n]
Runnable
(run [this]
(let [ctx (mq/context 1)
client (mq/socket ctx mq/dealer)
poller (.poller ctx 1)
request-nbr (atom 0)]
(mq/set-id client n)
(mq/connect client "tcp://localhost:5570")
(.register poller client ZMQ$Poller/POLLIN)
(while true
(dotimes [i 100]
(.poll poller 10000)
(if (.pollin poller 0)
(println (format "%s: %s" (-> client .getIdentity String.) (-> client (mq/recv-all 0) last))))
(swap! request-nbr inc)
(mq/send client (format "request: %d" @request-nbr)))))))

(defrecord ServerTask []
Runnable
(run [this]
(let [ctx (mq/context 1)
frontend (mq/socket ctx mq/router)
backend (mq/socket ctx mq/dealer)]
;; Frontend socket talks to clients over tcp
(mq/bind frontend "tcp://*:5570")
;; Backend socket talks to workers over inproc
(mq/bind backend "inproc://backend")
;; Launch pool of worker threads, precise number is not critical
(dotimes [i 5]
(-> (ServerWorker.) Thread. .start))
;; Connect backend to frontend via a queue device
;; We could do this:
;; zmq_device (ZMQ_QUEUE, frontend, backend);
;; But doing it ourselves means we can debug this more easily
;; //
;; Switch messages between frontend and backend//
(let [poller (.poller ctx 2)]
(.register poller frontend ZMQ$Poller/POLLIN)
(.register poller backend ZMQ$Poller/POLLIN)
(while true
(.poll poller)
(if (.pollin poller 0)
(let [msg (-> frontend (mq/recv-all 0) last String.)]
(println (format "Request from client: %s" msg))
(mq/send backend msg)))
(if (.pollin poller 1)
(let [msg (-> backend (mq/recv-all 0) last String.)]
(println (format "Reply from worker: %s" msg))
(mq/send frontend msg))))))))

(defn -main []
(dotimes [i 3]
(-> i ClientTask. Thread. .start))
(-> (ServerTask.) Thread. .start))