If there's some template for writing a client to access event data, that would be 
very useful (and you can probably just ignore the context I gave below in that 
case).


Some context:

Quite a while ago, I wrote the attached "data pipeline" client whose job was to 
listen for events, copy their data, and pipe them to a python script. I believe I 
just stole bits and pieces from mdump.cxx to accomplish this. Later I wrote the 
attached wrapper class "MidasConnector.cpp" and a main.cpp to generalize
data_pipeline.cxx a bit. There were a lot of iterations to the code where I had the 
below problems; so don't take the logic in the attached code as the exact code that 
caused the issues below.

However, I'm unable to resolve a couple issues:

1. If a timeout is set, everything will work until that timeout is reached. Then 
regardless of what kind of logic I tried to implement (retry receiving event, 
disconnect and reconnect client, etc.) the client would refuse to receive more data.

2. When I ctrl-C main, it hangs; this is expected because it's stuck in a while 
loop. But because I can't set a timeout I have to ctrl-C twice; this would 
occasionally corrupt the ODB which was not ideal. I was able to get around this with 
some impractical solution involving ncurses I believe.


Thanks,
Jack