Consider OpenRPC integration

[BelfordZ]

Hey there,

I work on a project called OpenRPC. Its a fork of OpenAPI, modified to suit JSON-RPC 2.0.

There are a lot of things you can use an OpenRPC document for in your projects. Let me know if you have any questions or need any help.

Cheers.

[cinemast]

This looks very interesting, I'll have a look.

[BelfordZ]

Happy to jump in a call with you and talk about your project and open rpc.

hmu!

[cinemast]

Looks quite similar to what I had in mind anyway: https://github.com/cinemast/json-rpc-stub/blob/master/examples/warehouse.json

It is again similar to Kodi's JSON-RPC API description: https://kodi.wiki/view/JSON-RPC_API/v8

[lauritsriple]

Hi! Is there any plans for integrating this to the library? Support for openrpc to generate stubs would be really neat.

[BelfordZ]

@lauritsriple we have a hosted version of mock-server that is a json rpc for getting a 15-minute mock server. You can give it a try by passing in your open-rpc document to the mock method:

https://playground.open-rpc.org/?url=https://mock.open-rpc.org

it will return you a url to use as mock server. It will respond to all your methods, validate params, respond to rpc.discover.

It you want to run your own, or run it against a single document instead of in this 'service mode', you can check out https://github.com/open-rpc/mock-server

While that might not be the best path for this specific project, it certainly is a cool one ;)

[cinemast]

I like the idea, just did not have time yet to implement it. @BelfordZ do you already have existing code generators for other languages/libraries?

[BelfordZ]

yep. We have https://github.com/open-rpc/generator

which can generated a fully typed api client for you. Along side this, you can generate a documentation site similar to what we have here: https://core-geth.org

[cinemast]

Would you prefer to integrate json-rpc-cxx support in the existing open-rpc/generator or have it as a separate project?

[cinemast]

Ok, I just took a look at the existing rust integration. Apparently there is nothing there? I would have thought that the generator is somehow template based?

[cinemast]

I just checked out the source and tried to build it:

npm install
npm ERR! Maximum call stack size exceeded

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\cinemast\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2020-11-07T20_01_35_257Z-debug.log
PS C:\Users\cinemast\git\generator> npm install
npm ERR! Maximum call stack size exceeded

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\cinemast\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2020-11-07T20_06_50_534Z-debug.log

Looking at the pulled in dependencies, I think adding to the existing repo is not an option for me. I prefer downloading a simple binary that I can use within my build process and not having to pull in the node ecosystem.

[BelfordZ]

@cinemast That makes sense. Sorry about the issue with current generator that you are running into.

That said, the open-rpc/generator is meant to serve as a generic / try to suit all generator. I'd love to see a generator written in different languages, ones that can produce a light binary. Happy to help any way I can.