Reading structured data in from NetMQ about psi HOT 3 CLOSED

Hey Willie,

You're right that the correct way to receive a structured message on the \psi side is as a dynamic. You should be able to unpack fields simply by knowing the names (e.g. 'message.say'). Or you can treat the underlying 'ExpandoObject' as a dictionary by merely casting it: 'IDictionary<string, object> dict = message;If you really want to convert it to some structured type on the .NET side (or even to a dictionary of strong types), you'd do that with a.Select(...)` unpacking the dynamic and constructing a strong type of your own. It's not automatic.

Hope that helps!

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Again, I hope that helped. I'm closing this issue, but please feel free to reopen it if you're still having trouble.

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Ashley, yes this was helpful. Here's the code I ended up using:

var mqs = new NetMQSource<dynamic>(this, "message-topic", "tcp://127.0.0.1:12002", JsonFormat.Instance); mqs.Select(msg => ((IDictionary<String, Object>)msg)).PipeTo(Out);

I'm working on a video tutorial of how all this works, and I'll share that video.

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