JRPC2GO: Zero dependencies JSON RPC 2.0 Library for Golang

JRPC2GO is a minimal API to handle JSON RPC 2.0 requests that works with transport layer that implements io.Reader and io.Writer.

Concepts

JRPC2Go works around two main concepts, the Manager and the Method.

Manager

The Manager is responsible for handling the requests and reply with responses, it also keeps all the methods supported and calls the right method for each request.

Once a request is received the Manager will validate the request, invoke the proper method and send back the response.

To create a new Manager we use the NewManagerBuilder that allows to create a new manager with the specified configuration ready to start handling requests.

manager := jrpc.NewManagerBuilder().
	SetTimeout(2*time.Second).
	Add("add", &addMethod{}).
	Add("sum", &addMethod{}).
	Build()

With the Manager ready we just need to call the Handle method from the manager and provide the input source (io.Reader), the output source (io.Writer) and the current context.

ctx := context.Background()
for {
	if err := manager.Handle(ctx, os.Stdin, os.Stdout); err != nil {
		if _, err := stdout.WriteString(err.Error()); err != nil {
			log.Fatal(err)
		}
	}
}

The example above connects the Manager to Stdin and Stdout, so we can send JSON-RPC requests and get the response from the terminal.

Method

The Method it's an interface with only one method called Execute

Execute(req *jrpc.Request, resp *jrpc.Response)

Inside this method we will put the operation "business-logic", from the Request we can get all the data sent from the client and also the request context and we put the result or error on the response.

type addMethod struct {
	// database and other resourses needed for this method
}

type addMethodParams struct {
	V1 int64 `json:"value1"`
	V2 int64 `json:"value2"`
}

func (m *addMethod) Execute(req *jrpc.Request, resp *jrpc.Response) {
	var p addMethodParams
	if err := req.ParseParams(&p); err != nil {
		resp.Error = err
		return
    }
    
	resp.Result = p.V1 + p.V2
}

The addMethod struct can contain the resources needed by the Execute and the addMethodParams it's the struct that represent the parameters sent on the request.

After that we jus need to add the method to the manager and it will take care of the rest.

manager := jrpc.NewManagerBuilder().
	Add("add", &addMethod{}).
	Build()

Installing

go get -u github.com/fabiodcorreia/jrpc2go

Next, include the package in your application:

import "github.com/fabiodcorreia/jrpc2go"

To make the package name less verbose it's recommended to use an alias:

import jrpc "github.com/fabiodcorreia/jrpc2go"

Examples

Examples full examples with HTTP and Stdin/out implementations can be found at _examples.

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Clone your fork to your local machine (git clone https://github.com/your_username/jrpc2go && cd jsonrpc2go)
3. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
4. Make changes and add them (git add .)
5. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some feature')
6. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
7. Create new pull request

License

JRPC2GO is released under the Apache 2.0 license. See LICENSE.txt