1. Renames
Some of the items in this module were renamed to be less generic:
- Handler => Incoming
- ClientHandler => Requests
- ResponseHandler => InFlightRequest
- Channel::{respond_with => requests}
In the case of Handler: handler of *what*? Now it's a bit clearer that
this is a stream of Channels (aka *incoming* connections).
Similarly, ClientHandler was a stream of requests over a single
connection. Hopefully Requests better reflects that.
ResponseHandler was renamed InFlightRequest because it no longer
contains the serving function. Instead, it is just the request, plus
the response channel and an abort hook. As a result of this,
Channel::respond_with underwent a big change: it used to take the
serving function and return a ClientHandler; now it has been renamed
Channel::requests and does not take any args.
2. Execute methods
All methods thats actually result in responses being generated
have been consolidated into methods named `execute`:
- InFlightRequest::execute returns a future that completes when a
response has been generated and sent to the server Channel.
- Requests::execute automatically spawns response handlers for all
requests over a single channel.
- Channel::execute is a convenience for `channel.requests().execute()`.
- Incoming::execute automatically spawns response handlers for all
requests over all channels.
3. Removal of Server.
server::Server was removed, as it provided no value over the Incoming/Channel
abstractions. Additionally, server::new was removed, since it just
returned a Server.
As part of this, I made an optional tokio feature which, when enabled,
adds utility functions that spawn on the default tokio executor. This
allows for the removal of the runtime crate.
On the one hand, this makes the spawning utils slightly less generic. On
the other hand:
- The fns are just helpers and are easily rewritten by the user.
- Tokio is the clear dominant futures executor, so most people will just
use these versions.
Send + 'static was baked in to make it possible to spawn futures onto
the default executor. We can accomplish the same thing by offering
helper fns that do the spawning while not requiring it for the rest of
the functionality.
Fixes https://github.com/google/tarpc/issues/212
- fn serve -> Service::serve
- fn new_stub -> Client::new
This allows the generated function names to remain consistent across
service definitions while preventing collisions.
-- Connection Limits
The problem with having ConnectionFilter default-enabled is elaborated on in https://github.com/google/tarpc/issues/217. The gist of it is not all servers want a policy based on `SocketAddr`. This PR allows customizing the behavior of ConnectionFilter, at the cost of not having it enabled by default. However, enabling it is as simple as one line:
incoming.max_channels_per_key(10, ip_addr)
The second argument is a key function that takes the user-chosen transport and returns some hashable, equatable, cloneable key. In the above example, it returns an `IpAddr`.
This also allows the `Transport` trait to have the addr fns removed, which means it has become simply an alias for `Stream + Sink`.
-- Per-Channel Request Throttling
With respect to Channel's throttling behavior, the same argument applies. There isn't a one size fits all solution to throttling requests, and the policy applied by tarpc is just one of potentially many solutions. As such, `Channel` is now a trait that offers a few combinators, one of which is throttling:
channel.max_concurrent_requests(10).respond_with(serve(Server))
This functionality is also available on the existing `Handler` trait, which applies it to all incoming channels and can be used in tandem with connection limits:
incoming
.max_channels_per_key(10, ip_addr)
.max_concurrent_requests_per_channel(10).respond_with(serve(Server))
-- Global Request Throttling
I've entirely removed the overall request limit enforced across all channels. This functionality is easily gotten back via [`StreamExt::buffer_unordered`](https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/futures-api-docs/0.3.0-alpha.1/futures/stream/trait.StreamExt.html#method.buffer_unordered), with the difference being that the previous behavior allowed you to spawn channels onto different threads, whereas `buffer_unordered ` means the `Channels` are handled on a single thread (the per-request handlers are still spawned). Considering the existing options, I don't believe that the benefit provided by this functionality held its own.
# 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.
