in pythonflow/pfmq/broker.py [0:0]
def apply(self, request, **kwargs):
"""
Process a request remotely.
Parameters
----------
request : object
Request to process.
Returns
-------
ressult : object
Result of remotely-processed request.
"""
if not self.is_alive:
raise RuntimeError("broker is not running")
return apply(request, self.frontend_address, **kwargs)