# New Crates
- crate rpc contains the core client/server request-response framework, as well as a transport trait.
- crate bincode-transport implements a transport that works almost exactly as tarpc works today (not to say it's wire-compatible).
- crate trace has some foundational types for tracing. This isn't really fleshed out yet, but it's useful for in-process log tracing, at least.
All crates are now at the top level. e.g. tarpc-plugins is now tarpc/plugins rather than tarpc/src/plugins. tarpc itself is now a *very* small code surface, as most functionality has been moved into the other more granular crates.
# New Features
- deadlines: all requests specify a deadline, and a server will stop processing a response when past its deadline.
- client cancellation propagation: when a client drops a request, the client sends a message to the server informing it to cancel its response. This means cancellations can propagate across multiple server hops.
- trace context stuff as mentioned above
- more server configuration for total connection limits, per-connection request limits, etc.
# Removals
- no more shutdown handle. I left it out for now because of time and not being sure what the right solution is.
- all async now, no blocking stub or server interface. This helps with maintainability, and async/await makes async code much more usable. The service trait is thusly renamed Service, and the client is renamed Client.
- no built-in transport. Tarpc is now transport agnostic (see bincode-transport for transitioning existing uses).
- going along with the previous bullet, no preferred transport means no TLS support at this time. We could make a tls transport or make bincode-transport compatible with TLS.
- a lot of examples were removed because I couldn't keep up with maintaining all of them. Hopefully the ones I kept are still illustrative.
- no more plugins!
# Open Questions
1. Should client.send() return `Future<Response>` or `Future<Future<Response>>`? The former appears more ergonomic but it doesn’t allow concurrent requests with a single client handle. The latter is less ergonomic but yields back control of the client once it’s successfully sent out the request. Should we offer fns for both?
2. Should rpc service! Fns take &mut self or &self or self? The service needs to impl Clone anyway, technically we only need to clone it once per connection, and then leave it up to the user to decide if they want to clone it per RPC. In practice, everyone doing nontrivial stuff will need to clone it per RPC, I think.
3. Do the request/response structs look ok?
4. Is supporting server shutdown/lameduck important?
Fixes#178#155#124#104#83#38
* Head off imminent breakage due to https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/51285.
* Fix examples and documentation to use a recently-gated feature, `proc_macro_path_invoc`.
* Update dependency versions.
By allowing unreachable patterns, we don't have to have 'NotIrrefutable' variants in the Request, Response, and Error enums.
This commit also removes an unused macro in an example.
* Create a directory for the `future::server` module, which has become quite large. server.rs => server/mod.rs. Server submodules for shutdown and connection logic are added.
* Add fn thread_pool(...) to sync::server::Options
* Configure idle threads to expire after one minute
* Add tarpc::util::lazy for lazily executing functions. Similar to `futures::lazy` but useful in different circumstances. Specifically, `futures::lazy` typically requires a closure, whereas `util::lazy` kind of deconstructs a closure into its function and args.
* Remove some unstable features, and `cfg(plugin)` only in tests. Features `unboxed_closures` and `fn_traits` are removed by replacing manual Fn impls with Stream impls. This actually leads to slightly more performant code, as well, because some `Rc`s could be removed.
* Fix tokio deprecation warnings. Update to use tokio-io in lieu of deprecated tokio-core items. impl AsyncRead's optional `unsafe fn prepare_uninitialized_buffer` for huge perf wins
* Add debug impls to all public items and add `deny(missing_debug_implementations)` to the crate.
* Bump tokio core version.
The merge of rust-lang/rust#40043 removes parse_ty_path in the latest
nightly, which we depended on. This patch rewrites that code path using
parse_path, and in the process eliminates an unreachable!() if let arm.
0 is a sentinel value used to make all enums refutable. This is a hack around issues in maros
where you're unknowingly treating irrefutable patterns as refutable, which is unfortunately
a hard error.
The server panics if it ever encountered the 0-variant, which before this patch was possible. Now,
it's not possible, because 0-variants are now not able to be deserialized.
