MessagePack RPC for Python

MessagePack RPC implementation based on Tornado.

Installation

% python setup.py install

or

% easy_install msgpack-rpc-python

Dependent modules

• msgpack-python (>= 0.1.12)
• tornado (>= 2.1.1)

Example

Server

import msgpackrpc

class SumServer(object):
    def sum(self, x, y):
        return x + y

server = msgpackrpc.Server(SumServer())
server.listen(msgpackrpc.Address("localhost", 18800))
server.start()

Client

import msgpackrpc

client = msgpackrpc.Client(msgpackrpc.Address("localhost", 18800))
result = client.call('sum', 1, 2)  # = > 3

Run test

In test directory:

% PYTHONPATH=../ python test_msgpackrpc.py

Run with timeout test(Timeout test takes about 5 seconds)

% PYTHONPATH=../ python test_msgpackrpc.py --timeout-test

Performance

OS: Mac OS X ver 10.8.2
CPU: Intel Core i7 2GHz
Memory: 8GB 1600MHz DDR3

	Request(QPS)	Notify(QPS)
2.7.2	4782	18315
3.2.3	4700	16667

Test code are available in example directory(bench_client.py and bench_server.py).

TODO

• Add advanced and async return to Server.
• UDP, UNIX Domain support
• Utilities (MultiFuture, SessionPool)
• Support pyev for performance if needed

Copyright

Author	Masahiro Nakagawa
Copyright	Copyright (c) 2011- Masahiro Nakagawa
License	Apache License, Version 2.0