From 3cb80de773c3100f358734a3e87a4a052cc36ada Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dennis Klein <d.klein@gsi.de>
Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 16:47:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add channel name setter

---
 fairmq/FairMQChannel.cxx | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 fairmq/FairMQChannel.h   |  4 ++++
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fairmq/FairMQChannel.cxx b/fairmq/FairMQChannel.cxx
index 521010e8..8972dac7 100644
--- a/fairmq/FairMQChannel.cxx
+++ b/fairmq/FairMQChannel.cxx
@@ -424,6 +424,22 @@ auto FairMQChannel::SetModified(const bool modified) -> void
     }
 }
 
+void FairMQChannel::UpdateChannelName(const string& name)
+{
+    try
+    {
+        unique_lock<mutex> lock(fChannelMutex);
+        fIsValid = false;
+        fName = name;
+        fModified = true;
+    }
+    catch (exception& e)
+    {
+        LOG(ERROR) << "Exception caught in FairMQChannel::UpdateChannelName: " << e.what();
+        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+    }
+}
+
 bool FairMQChannel::IsValid() const
 {
     try
diff --git a/fairmq/FairMQChannel.h b/fairmq/FairMQChannel.h
index 2dc5095d..95c1de67 100644
--- a/fairmq/FairMQChannel.h
+++ b/fairmq/FairMQChannel.h
@@ -135,6 +135,10 @@ class FairMQChannel
     /// @param rateLogging Socket rate logging interval (in seconds)
     void UpdateRateLogging(const int rateLogging);
 
+    /// Set channel name
+    /// @param name Arbitrary channel name
+    void UpdateChannelName(const std::string& name);
+
     /// Checks if the configured channel settings are valid (checks the validity parameter, without running full validation (as oposed to ValidateChannel()))
     /// @return true if channel settings are valid, false otherwise.
     bool IsValid() const;