ZeroMQ-Client-Side-Leaderboard-Integration

// microservice integration
std::string toLeaderboard(std::string score)
{
    // preparing context and socket
    zmq::context_t context;
    zmq::socket_t socket(context, zmq::socket_type::req);

    // connect socket over TCP to leaderboard microservice
    socket.connect("tcp://flip2.engr.oregonstate.edu:13376");

    // defining the request
    int message_length = score.length();
    const char *to_send = score.c_str();
    zmq::message_t request(12);
    memcpy(request.data(), to_send, message_length);
    // sending request to server
    socket.send(request, zmq::send_flags::none);

    // get the reply
    zmq::message_t reply;
    socket.recv(reply, zmq::recv_flags::none);

    return reply.to_string();
}