GBBopen 1.5 Reference -- make-broadcast-streamer

make-broadcast-streamer

make-broadcast-streamer

streamers => broadcast-streamer

[Function]

Purpose
Create a broadcast streamer that can be used to write to multiple journal and network streamers.

Alternate syntax

make-broadcast-streamer &key package read-default-float-format external-format => broadcast-streamer

Package :gbbopen

Module :streaming

Arguments and values

streamers		A list of journal or network streamers.
package		A package designator indicating the package to be used when writing to and reading from the streamers associated with the `broadcast-streamer` (default is `:common-lisp`)
read-default-float-format		One of the atomic type specifiers `short-float`, `single-float`, `double-float`, or `long-float` to be used when to and reading from the streamers associated with the `broadcast-streamer` (default is `single-float`)
external-format		An external-file-format designator (default is `:default`)
broadcast-streamer		A broadcast streamer

Errors

Examples
Create a broadcast streamer containing network streamers to streamer nodes "you" and "you-too":

  > (make-broadcast-streamer 
      (open-network-streamer "me" "you")
      (open-network-streamer "me" "you-too"))
  #<broadcast-streamer 2 constituents>
  >

Create a broadcast streamer with no constituents to be used with UTF-8 streamers:

  > (make-broadcast-streamer :external-format ':utf-8)
  #<broadcast-streamer 0 constituents>
  >

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