RPC | IDL | Communication | Network data | Compression | Attachment | Semi-synchronous | Asynchronous | Streaming |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Thrift Binary Framed | Thrift | TCP | Binary | Not supported | Not supported | Supported | Not supported | Not supported |
Thrift Binary HttpTransport | Thrift | HTTP | Binary | Not supported | Not supported | Supported | Not supported | Not supported |
GRPC | PB | HTTP2 | Binary | gzip/zlib/lz4/snappy | Supported | Not supported | Supported | Supported |
BRPC Std | PB | TCP | Binary | gzip/zlib/lz4/snappy | Supported | Not supported | Supported | Supported |
SRPC Std | PB/Thrift | TCP | Binary/JSON | gzip/zlib/lz4/snappy | Supported | Supported | Supported | Not supported |
SRPC Std HTTP | PB/Thrift | HTTP | Binary/JSON | gzip/zlib/lz4/snappy | Supported | Supported | Supported | Not supported |
- Communication layer: TCP/TPC_SSL/HTTP/HTTPS/HTTP2
- Protocol layer: Thrift-binary/BRPC-std/SRPC-std/SRPC-http/tRPC-std/tRPC-http
- Compression layer: no compression/gzip/zlib/lz4/snappy
- Data layer: PB binary/Thrift binary/JSON string
- IDL serialization layer: PB/Thrift serialization
- RPC invocation layer: Service/Client IMPL
- Get srpc version
srpc::SRPCGlobal::get_instance()->get_srpc_version()
Name | Value | Description |
---|---|---|
RPCStatusUndefined | 0 | Undefined |
RPCStatusOK | 1 | Correct/Success |
RPCStatusServiceNotFound | 2 | Cannot find the RPC service name |
RPCStatusMethodNotFound | 3 | Cannot find the RPC function name |
RPCStatusMetaError | 4 | Meta error/ parsing failed |
RPCStatusReqCompressSizeInvalid | 5 | Incorrect size for the request when compressing |
RPCStatusReqDecompressSizeInvalid | 6 | Incorrect size for the request when decompressing |
RPCStatusReqCompressNotSupported | 7 | The compression type for the request is not supported |
RPCStatusReqDecompressNotSupported | 8 | The decompression type for the request is not supported |
RPCStatusReqCompressError | 9 | Failed to compress the request |
RPCStatusReqDecompressError | 10 | Failed to decompress the request |
RPCStatusReqSerializeError | 11 | Failed to serialize the request by IDL |
RPCStatusReqDeserializeError | 12 | Failed to deserialize the request by IDL |
RPCStatusRespCompressSizeInvalid | 13 | Incorrect size for the response when compressing |
RPCStatusRespDecompressSizeInvalid | 14 | Incorrect size for the response when compressing |
RPCStatusRespCompressNotSupported | 15 | The compression type for the response is not supported |
RPCStatusRespDecompressNotSupported | 16 | The decompression type for the response not supported |
RPCStatusRespCompressError | 17 | Failed to compress the response |
RPCStatusRespDecompressError | 18 | Failed to decompress the response |
RPCStatusRespSerializeError | 19 | Failed to serialize the response by IDL |
RPCStatusRespDeserializeError | 20 | Failed to deserialize the response by IDL |
RPCStatusIDLSerializeNotSupported | 21 | IDL serialization type is not supported |
RPCStatusIDLDeserializeNotSupported | 22 | IDL deserialization type is not supported |
RPCStatusURIInvalid | 30 | Illegal URI |
RPCStatusUpstreamFailed | 31 | Upstream is failed |
RPCStatusSystemError | 100 | System error |
RPCStatusSSLError | 101 | SSL error |
RPCStatusDNSError | 102 | DNS error |
RPCStatusProcessTerminated | 103 | Program exited&terminated |
- Interface Description Languaue file
- Backward and forward compatibility
- Protobuf/Thrift
You can follow the detailed example below:
- Take pb as an example. First, define an
example.proto
file with the ServiceName asExample
. - The name of the rpc interface is
Echo
, with the input parameter asEchoRequest
, and the output parameter asEchoResponse
. EchoRequest
consists of two strings:message
andname
.EchoResponse
consists of one string:message
.
syntax="proto2";
message EchoRequest {
optional string message = 1;
optional string name = 2;
};
message EchoResponse {
optional string message = 1;
};
service Example {
rpc Echo(EchoRequest) returns (EchoResponse);
};
- It is the basic unit for SRPC services.
- Each service must be generated by one type of IDLs.
- Service is determined by IDL type, not by specific network communication protocol.
You can follow the detailed example below:
- Use the same
example.proto
IDL above. - Run the official
protoc example.proto --cpp_out=./ --proto_path=./
to get two files:example.pb.h
andexample.pb.cpp
. - Run the
srpc_generator protobuf ./example.proto ./
in SRPC to getexample.srpc.h
. - Derive
Example::Service
to implement the rpc business logic, which is an RPC Service. - Please note that this Service does not involve any concepts such as network, port, communication protocol, etc., and it is only responsible for completing the business logic that convert
EchoRequest
toEchoResponse
.
class ExampleServiceImpl : public Example::Service
{
public:
void Echo(EchoRequest *request, EchoResponse *response, RPCContext *ctx) override
{
response->set_message("Hi, " + request->name());
printf("get_req:\n%s\nset_resp:\n%s\n",
request->DebugString().c_str(),
response->DebugString().c_str());
}
};
- Each server corresponds to one port
- Each server corresponds to one specific network communication protocol
- One service may be added into multiple Servers
- One Server may have one or more Services, but the ServiceName must be unique within that Server
- Services from different IDLs can be added into the same Server
You can follow the detailed example below:
- Follow the above
ExampleServiceImpl
Service - First, create an RPC Server and determine the proto file.
- Then, create any number of Service instances and any number of Services for different protocols, and add these services to the Server through the
add_service()
interface. - Finally, use
start()
orserve()
to start the services in the Server and handle the upcoming rpc requests through the Server. - Imagine that we can also derive more Serivce from
Example::Service
, which have different implementations of rpcEcho
. - Imagine that we can create N different RPC Servers on N different ports, serving on different network protocols.
- Imagine that we can use
add_service()
to add the same ServiceIMPL instance on different Servers, or we can useadd_service()
to add different ServiceIMPL instances on the same server. - Imagine that we can use the same
ExampleServiceImpl
, serving BRPC-STD, SRPC-STD, SRPC-Http at three different ports at the same time. - And we can use
add_service()
to add oneExampleServiceImpl
related to Protobuf IDL and oneAnotherThriftServiceImpl
related to Thrift IDL to the same SRPC-STD Server, and the two IDLs work perfectly on the same port!
int main()
{
SRPCServer server_srpc;
SRPCHttpServer server_srpc_http;
BRPCServer server_brpc;
ThriftServer server_thrift;
TRPCServer server_trpc;
TRPCHttpServer server_trpc_http;
ExampleServiceImpl impl_pb;
AnotherThriftServiceImpl impl_thrift;
server_srpc.add_service(&impl_pb);
server_srpc.add_service(&impl_thrift);
server_srpc_http.add_service(&impl_pb);
server_srpc_http.add_service(&impl_thrift);
server_brpc.add_service(&impl_pb);
server_thrift.add_service(&impl_thrift);
server_trpc.add_service(&impl_pb);
server_trpc_http.add_service(&impl_pb);
server_srpc.start(1412);
server_srpc_http.start(8811);
server_brpc.start(2020);
server_thrift.start(9090);
server_trpc.start(2022);
server_trpc_http.start(8822);
getchar();
server_trpc_http.stop();
server_trpc.stop();
server_thrift.stop();
server_brpc.stop();
server_srpc_http.stop();
server_srpc.stop();
return 0;
}
- Each Client corresponds to one specific target/one specific cluster
- Each Client corresponds to one specific network communication protocol
- Each Client corresponds to one specific IDL
You can follow the detailed example below:
- Following the above example, the client is relatively simple and you can call the method directly.
- Use
Example::XXXClient
to create a client instance of some RPC. The IP+port or URL of the target is required. - With the client instance, directly call the rpc function
Echo
. This is an asynchronous request, and the callback function will be invoked after the request is completed. - For the usage of the RPC Context, please check RPC Context.
#include <stdio.h>
#include "example.srpc.h"
#include "workflow/WFFacilities.h"
using namespace srpc;
int main()
{
Example::SRPCClient client("127.0.0.1", 1412);
EchoRequest req;
req.set_message("Hello!");
req.set_name("SRPCClient");
WFFacilities::WaitGroup wait_group(1);
client.Echo(&req, [&wait_group](EchoResponse *response, RPCContext *ctx) {
if (ctx->success())
printf("%s\n", response->DebugString().c_str());
else
printf("status[%d] error[%d] errmsg:%s\n",
ctx->get_status_code(), ctx->get_error(), ctx->get_errmsg());
wait_group.done();
});
wait_group.wait();
return 0;
}
- RPCContext is used specially to assist asynchronous interfaces, and can be used in both Service and Client.
- Each asynchronous interface will provide a Context, which offers higher-level functions, such as obtaining the remote IP, the connection seqid, and so on.
- Some functions on Context are unique to Server or Client. For example, you can set the compression mode of the response data on Server, and you can obtain the success or failure status of a request on Client.
- On the Context, you can use
get_series()
to obtain the SeriesWork, which is seamlessly integrated with the asynchronous mode of Workflow.
One complete communication consists of request+response. The sequence id of the communication on the current socket connection can be obtained, and seqid=0 indicates the first communication.
Get the remote IP address. IPv4/IPv6 is supported.
Get the remote address. The in/out parameter is the lower-level data structure sockaddr.
Get RPC Service Name.
Get RPC Method Name.
Get the SeriesWork of the current ServerTask/ClientTask.
If using the HTTP protocol, get the value in the HTTP header according to the name
For client only. The success or failure of the request.
For client only. The rpc status code of the request.
For client only. The error info of the request.
For client only. The error code of the request.
For client only. Get the user_data of the ClientTask. If a user generates a task through the create_xxx_task()
interface, the context can be recorded in the user_data field. You can set that field when creating the task, and retrieve it in the callback function.
For Server only. Set the data packaging type
- RPCDataProtobuf
- RPCDataThrift
- RPCDataJson
For Server only. Set the data compression type (note: the compression type for the Client is set on Client or Task)
- RPCCompressNone
- RPCCompressSnappy
- RPCCompressGzip
- RPCCompressZlib
- RPCCompressLz4
For Server only. Set the attachment.
For Server only. Get the attachment.
For Server only. Set reply callback, which is called after the operating system successfully writes the data into the socket buffer.
For Server only. Set the maximum time for sending the message, in milliseconds. -1 indicates unlimited time.
For Server only. Set the maximum connection keep-alive time, in milliseconds. -1 indicates unlimited time.
For Server only. If using the HTTP protocol, set the http status code. Only works if the srpc framework handles correctly.
For Server only. If using the HTTP protocol, set into http header. If the name is set, old value will be overwritten.
For Server only. If using the HTTP protocol, set into http header. Will keep multiple values if the name is set.
For Server only. For transparent data transmission, please refer to the log semantics in OpenTelemetry.
For Server only. For transparent data transmission, please refer to the baggage semantics in OpenTelemetry.
For Server only. For JsonPrintOptions, whether to add white space and so on to make JSON output easy to read.
For Server only. For JsonPrintOptions, whether to always print enums as ints.
For Server only. For JsonPrintOptions, whether to preserve proto field names.
For Server only. For JsonPrintOptions, whether to always print fields with no presence.
Name | Default value | Description |
---|---|---|
max_connections | 2000 | The maximum number of connections for the Server. The default value is 2000. |
peer_response_timeout: | 10* 1000 | The maximum time for each read IO. The default value is 10 seconds. |
receive_timeout: | -1 | The maximum read time of each complete message. -1 indicates unlimited time. |
keep_alive_timeout: | 60 * 1000 | Maximum keep_alive time for idle connection. -1 indicates no disconnection. 0 indicates short connection. The default keep-alive time for long connection is 60 seconds |
request_size_limit | 2LL * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 | Request packet size limit. Maximum: 2 GB |
ssl_accept_timeout: | 10 * 1000 | SSL connection timeout. The default value is 10 seconds. |
Name | Default value | Description |
---|---|---|
host | "" | Target host, which can be an IP address or a domain name |
port | 1412 | Destination port number. The default value is 1412 |
is_ssl | false | SSL switch. The default value is off |
url | "" | The URL is valid only when the host is empty. URL will override three items: host/port/is_ssl |
task_params | The default configuration for tasks | See the configuration items below |
Name | Default value | Description |
---|---|---|
send_timeout | -1 | Maximum time for sending the message. The default value is unlimited time. |
receive_timeout | -1 | Maximum time for sending a response. The default value is unlimited time. |
watch_timeout | 0 | The maximum time of the first reply from remote. The default value is 0, indicating unlimited time. |
keep_alive_timeout | 30 * 1000 | The maximum keep-alive time for idle connections. -1 indicates no disconnection. The default value is 30 seconds. |
retry_max | 0 | Maximum number of retries. The default value is 0, indicating no retry. |
compress_type | RPCCompressNone | Compression type. The default value is no compression. |
data_type | RPCDataUndefined | The data type of network packets. The default value is consistent with the default value for RPC. For SRPC-Http protocol, it is JSON, and for others, they are the corresponding IDL types. |
You can follow the detailed example below:
- Echo RPC sends an HTTP request to the upstream modules when it receives the request.
- After the request to the upstream modules is completed, the server populates the body of HTTP response into the message of the response and send a reply to the client.
- We don't want to block/occupy the handler thread, so the request to the upstream must be asynchronous.
- First, we can use
WFTaskFactory::create_http_task()
of the factory of Workflow to create an asynchronous http_task. - Then, we use
ctx->get_series()
of the RPCContext to get the SeriesWork of the current ServerTask. - Finally, we use the
push_back()
interface of the SeriesWork to append the http_task to the SeriesWork.
class ExampleServiceImpl : public Example::Service
{
public:
void Echo(EchoRequest *request, EchoResponse *response, RPCContext *ctx) override
{
auto *http_task = WFTaskFactory::create_http_task("https://www.sogou.com", 0, 0,
[request, response](WFHttpTask *task) {
if (task->get_state() == WFT_STATE_SUCCESS)
{
const void *data;
size_t len;
task->get_resp()->get_parsed_body(&data, &len);
response->mutable_message()->assign((const char *)data, len);
}
else
response->set_message("Error: " + std::to_string(task->get_error()));
printf("Server Echo()\nget_req:\n%s\nset_resp:\n%s\n",
request->DebugString().c_str(),
response->DebugString().c_str());
});
ctx->get_series()->push_back(http_task);
}
};
You can follow the detailed example below:
- We send two requests in parallel. One is an RPC request and the other is an HTTP request.
- After both requests are finished, we initiate a calculation task again to calculate the sum of the squares of the two numbers.
- First, use
create_Echo_task()
of the RPC Client to create an rpc_task, which is an asynchronous RPC network request. - Then, use
WFTaskFactory::create_http_task
andWFTaskFactory::create_go_task
in the the factory of Workflow to create an asynchronous network task http_task and an asynchronous computing task calc_task respectively. - Finally, use the serial-parallel graph to organize three asynchronous tasks, in which the multiplication sign indicates parallel tasks and the greater than sign indicates serial tasks and then execute
start()
.
void calc(int x, int y)
{
int z = x * x + y * y;
printf("calc result: %d\n", z);
}
int main()
{
Example::SRPCClient client("127.0.0.1", 1412);
auto *rpc_task = client.create_Echo_task([](EchoResponse *response, RPCContext *ctx) {
if (ctx->success())
printf("%s\n", response->DebugString().c_str());
else
printf("status[%d] error[%d] errmsg:%s\n",
ctx->get_status_code(), ctx->get_error(), ctx->get_errmsg());
});
auto *http_task = WFTaskFactory::create_http_task("https://www.sogou.com", 0, 0, [](WFHttpTask *task) {
if (task->get_state() == WFT_STATE_SUCCESS)
{
std::string body;
const void *data;
size_t len;
task->get_resp()->get_parsed_body(&data, &len);
body.assign((const char *)data, len);
printf("%s\n\n", body.c_str());
}
else
printf("Http request fail\n\n");
});
auto *calc_task = WFTaskFactory::create_go_task(calc, 3, 4);
EchoRequest req;
req.set_message("Hello!");
req.set_name("1412");
rpc_task->serialize_input(&req);
WFFacilities::WaitGroup wait_group(1);
SeriesWork *series = Workflow::create_series_work(http_task, [&wait_group](const SeriesWork *) {
wait_group.done();
});
series->push_back(rpc_task);
series->push_back(calc_task);
series->start();
wait_group.wait();
return 0;
}
SRPC can directly use any component of Workflow, the most commonly used is Upstream, any kind of client of SRPC can use Upstream.
You may use the example below to construct a client that can use Upstream through parameters:
#include "workflow/UpstreamManager.h"
int main()
{
// 1. create upstream and add server instances
UpstreamManager::upstream_create_weighted_random("echo_server", true);
UpstreamManager::upstream_add_server("echo_server", "127.0.0.1:1412");
UpstreamManager::upstream_add_server("echo_server", "192.168.10.10");
UpstreamManager::upstream_add_server("echo_server", "internal.host.com");
// 2. create params and fill upstream name
RPCClientParams client_params = RPC_CLIENT_PARAMS_DEFAULT;
client_params.host = "srpc::echo_server"; // this scheme only used when upstream URI parsing
client_params.port = 1412; // this port only used when upstream URI parsing and will not affect the select of instances
// 3. construct client by params, the rest of usage is similar as other tutorials
Example::SRPCClient client(&client_params);
...
If we use the ConsistentHash or Manual upstream, we often need to distinguish different tasks for the selection algorithm. At this time, we may use the int set_uri_fragment(const std::string& fragment);
interface on the client task to set request-level related information.
This field is the fragment in the URI. For the semantics, please refer to RFC3689 3.5-Fragment, any infomation that needs to use the fragment (such as other information included in some other selection policy), you may use this field as well.