InterShop RPC

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• To Do
  • Future Shape of RPC Datoms

A NodeJS RPC server for InterShop.

To Do

• Documentation.
• transition from old implementation in InterShop:
  • check code completeness
  • remove prv
  • rewrite code that uses prev model
  • reflect on how to deal w/ log() functionality
  • cleanup code, esp. wrt. implicit meta-methods in $do_rpc()
  • rename/rewrite methods to adapt to XEmitter API conventions, i.e. use listen_to(), contract() and emit(), delegate() etc;
  • should provide a (partial) implementation of Datom (ex. a SQL method new_datom() should look similar to datom.new_datom(), result in JsonB)
  • equivalent to Datom's select() should use Postgres 12's new JSON Path functionality

Future Shape of RPC Datoms

For the time being we use ^${module_name}/${method_name} as keys for RPC; in the future, we will possibly move to issuing datoms like

{ $key: '^rpc', to: `${module_name}/${rkey}`, $value, }

where rkey may be any non-empty string as deemed appropriate by the authors of the RPC client library.