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Published: May 29, 2017 License: Apache-2.0 Imports: 0 Imported by: 0

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tendermint/rpc/lib

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HTTP RPC server supporting calls via uri params, jsonrpc, and jsonrpc over websockets

Client Requests

Suppose we want to expose the rpc function HelloWorld(name string, num int).

GET (URI)

As a GET request, it would have URI encoded parameters, and look like:

curl 'http://localhost:8008/hello_world?name="my_world"&num=5'

Note the ' around the url, which is just so bash doesn't ignore the quotes in "my_world". This should also work:

curl http://localhost:8008/hello_world?name=\"my_world\"&num=5

A GET request to / returns a list of available endpoints. For those which take arguments, the arguments will be listed in order, with _ where the actual value should be.

POST (JSONRPC)

As a POST request, we use JSONRPC. For instance, the same request would have this as the body:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "anything",
  "method": "hello_world",
  "params": {
    "name": "my_world",
    "num": 5
  }
}

With the above saved in file data.json, we can make the request with

curl --data @data.json http://localhost:8008

WebSocket (JSONRPC)

All requests are exposed over websocket in the same form as the POST JSONRPC. Websocket connections are available at their own endpoint, typically /websocket, though this is configurable when starting the server.

Server Definition

Define some types and routes:

type ResultStatus struct {
	Value string
}

// Define some routes
var Routes = map[string]*rpcserver.RPCFunc{
	"status": rpcserver.NewRPCFunc(Status, "arg"),
}

// an rpc function
func Status(v string) (*ResultStatus, error) {
	return &ResultStatus{v}, nil
}

Now start the server:

mux := http.NewServeMux()
rpcserver.RegisterRPCFuncs(mux, Routes)
wm := rpcserver.NewWebsocketManager(Routes, nil)
mux.HandleFunc("/websocket", wm.WebsocketHandler)
logger := log.NewTMLogger(log.NewSyncWriter(os.Stdout))
go func() {
	_, err := rpcserver.StartHTTPServer("0.0.0.0:8008", mux, logger)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
}()

Note that unix sockets are supported as well (eg. /path/to/socket instead of 0.0.0.0:8008)

Now see all available endpoints by sending a GET request to 0.0.0.0:8008. Each route is available as a GET request, as a JSONRPCv2 POST request, and via JSONRPCv2 over websockets.

Examples

CHANGELOG

0.7.0

BREAKING CHANGES:

  • removed Client empty interface
  • ClientJSONRPC#Call params argument became a map
  • rename ClientURI -> URIClient, ClientJSONRPC -> JSONRPCClient

IMPROVEMENTS:

  • added HTTPClient interface, which can be used for both ClientURI and ClientJSONRPC
  • all params are now optional (Golang's default will be used if some param is missing)
  • added Call method to WSClient (see method's doc for details)

Documentation

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Constants

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const Maj = "0"
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const Min = "7"
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const Version = Maj + "." + Min + "." + Fix

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Directories

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Commons for HTTP handling
Commons for HTTP handling

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