vibe-rpcchannel 0.1.2

A vibe.d RPC library based on TCP connections


To use this package, run the following command in your project's root directory:

Manual usage
Put the following dependency into your project's dependences section:


This package provides sub packages which can be used individually:

vibe-rpcchannel:noise - Noise transport for RPC library

vibe-rpcchannel:docpkg - Fake package used to build documentation

vibe-rpcchannel

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This implements a simple D-only RPC mechanism for vibe.D. The library is designed to be generic and work with any transport stream. Easy to use wrappers are available for unencrypted TCP streams and vibe-noisestream encrypted noise channels.

The API documentation is available here.

Features

  • Events allow for server->client communication callbacks
  • Overloading for functions
  • API enables easy management of sessions and authentication
  • API is flexible enough to allow for reverse mode: The machine connecting to a remote machine can be the RPC server. This is useful for NATed machines.

Limitations:

vibe-rpcchannel is more of a method to quickly build client<->server messaging protocols than a general purpose RPC server. This means especially that only one RPC call can be processed at a time. Also there's only limited Exception handling: All server side exceptions map to an RPCException at the client. Use error return values instead.

A simple TCP server/client example

import vibe.d, vibe.rpcchannel;

abstract class API
{
    int request(int a);
    string request(string a);
    
    Event!(int) progress;
    Event!() timer;

    void startTimer();
    void stopTimer();


    @ignoreRPC void ignoredFunction() {};
    @ignoreRPC void ignoredEvent();
}

class APIServer : API
{
    bool _timerStop = false;

    static APIServer startSession(TCPConnection info)
    {
        // Use info for authentication
        return new APIServer();
    }
    
    override int request(int a)
    {
        progress.emit(1);
        progress.emit(2);
        progress.emit(3);
        return a;
    }

    override string request(string a)
    {
        progress.emit(4);
        return a;
    }

    override void startTimer()
    {
        runTask(()
        {
            while (!_timerStop)
            {
                timer.emit();
                sleep(100.msecs);
            }
        });
    }
    
    override void stopTimer()
    {
        _timerStop = true;
    }
}

void main()
{
    void clientMain()
    {
        auto client = clientTCP!(API)("localhost", 8030);
        client.progress ~= (int a) {writeln("Progress event: ", a);};
        client.timer ~= () {writeln("Timer event");};
        assert(client.request(42) == 42);
        assert(client.request("hello") == "hello");
        client.startTimer();
        client.stopTimer();
        client.closeTCP();
    }

    auto server = serveTCP!(APIServer, API)(8030);
    runTask(&clientMain);
    runEventLoop();
}
Authors:
  • Johannes Pfau
Sub packages:
vibe-rpcchannel:noise, vibe-rpcchannel:docpkg
Dependencies:
vibe-d, eventsystem
Versions:
0.1.2 2017-Apr-17
0.1.1 2017-Apr-16
0.1.0 2017-Apr-14
~master 2017-Apr-17
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