How to use multiple bpipe servers?

The following call appears to support only 1 server as input: c=bpipe(authtype,appname,serverip,portnumber)

B-Pipe API allows setting multiple servers using following API calls to use alternative servers:

SessionOptions::setServerAddresses(ServerAddress[])

SessionOptions::setAutoRestartOnDisconnection(true)

How can we specify multiple servers in the MATLAB B-Pipe API?

Thanks, Rajesh

Answer 1

[Bruno Pop-Stefanov]

Hi Rajesh,

You're right, bpipe can only open one connection at a time. However, you can use the function multiple times to set up multiple connections. Instead of a single function call to create multiple connections, you would have to call bpipe each time you want to open a connection. The function returns a connection object.

For example:

% for all servers
for i = 1:numServers
    % open a connection and store the connection object in a cell array
    c{i} = bpipe(...);
end

Once you're done, you'll have to close all the connections the same way:

for i = 1:numServers
    % close the connection
    close(c{i})
end