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tarpc/src/lib.rs
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// Copyright 2016 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
//
// Licensed under the MIT License, <LICENSE or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>.
// This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed except according to those terms.
//! tarpc is an RPC framework for rust with a focus on ease of use. Defining a
//! service can be done in just a few lines of code, and most of the boilerplate of
//! writing a server is taken care of for you.
//!
//! ## What is an RPC framework?
//! "RPC" stands for "Remote Procedure Call," a function call where the work of
//! producing the return value is being done somewhere else. When an rpc function is
//! invoked, behind the scenes the function contacts some other process somewhere
//! and asks them to evaluate the function instead. The original function then
//! returns the value produced by the other process.
//!
//! RPC frameworks are a fundamental building block of most microservices-oriented
//! architectures. Two well-known ones are [gRPC](http://www.grpc.io) and
//! [Cap'n Proto](https://capnproto.org/).
//!
//! tarpc differentiates itself from other RPC frameworks by defining the schema in code,
//! rather than in a separate language such as .proto. This means there's no separate compilation
//! process, and no cognitive context switching between different languages. Additionally, it
//! works with the community-backed library serde: any serde-serializable type can be used as
//! arguments to tarpc fns.
//!
//! Example usage:
//!
//! ```
//! // required by `FutureClient` (not used in this example)
//! #![feature(conservative_impl_trait, plugin)]
//! #![plugin(tarpc_plugins)]
//!
//! #[macro_use]
//! extern crate tarpc;
//!
//! use tarpc::{client, server};
//! use tarpc::client::sync::Connect;
//! use tarpc::util::Never;
//!
//! service! {
//! rpc hello(name: String) -> String;
//! }
//!
//! #[derive(Clone)]
//! struct HelloServer;
//!
//! impl SyncService for HelloServer {
//! fn hello(&self, name: String) -> Result<String, Never> {
//! Ok(format!("Hello, {}!", name))
//! }
//! }
//!
//! fn main() {
//! let addr = "localhost:10000";
//! let _server = HelloServer.listen(addr, server::Options::default());
//! let client = SyncClient::connect(addr, client::Options::default()).unwrap();
//! println!("{}", client.hello("Mom".to_string()).unwrap());
//! }
//! ```
//!
#![deny(missing_docs)]
#![feature(plugin, conservative_impl_trait, never_type, unboxed_closures, fn_traits,
specialization)]
#![plugin(tarpc_plugins)]
extern crate byteorder;
extern crate bytes;
#[macro_use]
extern crate lazy_static;
#[macro_use]
extern crate log;
extern crate net2;
#[macro_use]
extern crate serde_derive;
extern crate take;
#[doc(hidden)]
pub extern crate bincode;
#[doc(hidden)]
pub extern crate futures;
#[doc(hidden)]
pub extern crate serde;
#[doc(hidden)]
pub extern crate tokio_core;
#[doc(hidden)]
pub extern crate tokio_proto;
#[doc(hidden)]
pub extern crate tokio_service;
pub use errors::Error;
#[doc(hidden)]
pub use errors::WireError;
/// Provides some utility error types, as well as a trait for spawning futures on the default event
/// loop.
pub mod util;
/// Provides the macro used for constructing rpc services and client stubs.
#[macro_use]
mod macros;
/// Provides the base client stubs used by the service macro.
pub mod client;
/// Provides the base server boilerplate used by service implementations.
pub mod server;
/// Provides implementations of `ClientProto` and `ServerProto` that implement the tarpc protocol.
/// The tarpc protocol is a length-delimited, bincode-serialized payload.
mod protocol;
/// Provides a few different error types.
mod errors;
use std::sync::mpsc;
use std::thread;
use tokio_core::reactor;
lazy_static! {
/// The `Remote` for the default reactor core.
static ref REMOTE: reactor::Remote = {
spawn_core()
};
}
/// Spawns a `reactor::Core` running forever on a new thread.
fn spawn_core() -> reactor::Remote {
let (tx, rx) = mpsc::channel();
thread::spawn(move || {
let mut core = reactor::Core::new().unwrap();
tx.send(core.handle().remote().clone()).unwrap();
// Run forever
core.run(futures::empty::<(), !>()).unwrap();
});
rx.recv().unwrap()
}
#[derive(Clone)]
enum Reactor {
Handle(reactor::Handle),
Remote(reactor::Remote),
}