amqprpc

Project amqprpc provides access to the exported methods of an object across RabbitMQ connection. It is meant as a near drop-in implementation of TCP based built-in net/rpc package thus most of characteristics and limitations are kept intact. The major difference stems from the fact of using messaging queues for transport, one well defined queue for requests and a temporary queue established internally by a client for processing responses. The implementation is intended to follow to certain extent RabbitMQ tutorial Remote procedure call (RPC)

Status

Beta

Usage

Go get

go get -u github.com/go-amqprpc/amqprpc

Import

import "github.com/go-amqprpc/amqprpc"

Examples

A simple example of a use-case adopted from net/rpc would look as follows using a queue based RPC:

A server wishes to export an object of type Arith:

package X

import "errors"

type Args struct {
	A, B int
}

type Quotient struct {
	Quo, Rem int
}

type Arith int

func (t *Arith) Multiply(args *Args, reply *int) error {
	*reply = args.A * args.B
	return nil
}

func (t *Arith) Divide(args *Args, quo *Quotient) error {
        if args.B == 0 {
            return errors.New("divide by zero")
        }
        quo.Quo = args.A / args.B
        quo.Rem = args.A % args.B
        return nil
}

The server calls for AMQP service:

package X

import "github.com/go-amqprpc/amqprpc"

const (
        RPCQueueName = "rpc_queue"
        AMQPURI = "amqp://guest:[email protected]:5672//"
)

arith := new(Arith)
server, err := amqprpc.NewServer(AMQPURI)
if err != nil {
        panic(err)
}
defer server.Close()

server.Register(RPCQueueName, arith)
err = server.Listen()
if err != nil {
        panic(err)
}

At this point, clients can see a service Arith with methods Arith.Multiply and Arith.Divide. To invoke one, a client first dials the server:

package X

import "github.com/go-amqprpc/amqprpc"

client, err := amqprpc.NewClient(AMQPURI)
if err != nil {
        panic(err)
}
defer client.Close()

Then it can make a remote call:

// Synchronous call

args := &X.Args{7,8}
var reply int
err = client.Call(RPCQueueName, "Arith.Multiply", args, &reply)
if err != nil {
        panic(err)
}
fmt.Printf("Arith: %d*%d=%d", args.A, args.B, reply)

or

// Asynchronous call

quotient := new(X.Quotient)
divCall := client.Go(RPCQueueName, "Arith.Divide", args, quotient, nil)
replyCall := <-divCall.Done	// will be equal to divCall
// check errors, print, etc.

License

Apache License v2 - see LICENSE for more details.