smip - A framework for SOME/IP development in Rust

smip aims to make SOME/IP development in Rust feel as natural as building regular web services.

It offers a higher-level abstraction over the underlying protocol, making it easier to use and understand by providing a cleaner more structured way to define services by leveraging Rust's powerful macro system, something similar to rocket.rs but for SOME/IP.

Example

Let's look at a simple "Hello World" example using smip.

use smip::{Runtime, RuntimeConfig, Service};

#[smip::service(id = 0x1234, major_version = 1, minor_version = 0)]
struct MyService {
    x: u32,
}

#[smip::methods_impl]
impl MyService {

    #[smip_method(id = 1)]
    fn add(&mut self, value: u32) -> u32 {
        self.x += value;
        self.x
    }

    #[smip_method(id = 2)]
    fn hello(&self) -> String {
        "Hello World!".to_string()
    }
}

fn main() {
    let config = smip::RuntimeConfig::new("Simple", 0xABCD, 0x1);

    let application = Runtime::new(config).service(
        MyService {
        x: 0
    }, 30509);

    let _ = application.run();
}

A service is represented by a struct, MyService in this case, with a service attribute for providing its id and other metadata like the major_version (optional) and minor_version (optional). This struct will also hold all of the service's state.

SOME/IP methods are just rust methods with a special smip_method attribute to indicate its id. Whatever you pass as an argument to your method is parsed automatically from the payload, and whatever you return from it serialized into a response and sent back. All of these need to be in a special impl block marked with a methods_impl attribute for the framework to recognize them.

There are two methods

A Runtime needs to be created using a RuntimeConfig which which take care of creating and running all of your services.

After adding all your services to the Runtime, call runtime.run() to start all the services.

Goal

smip aims to be a SOME/IP framework and not an implementation of SOME/IP, so its not competing with vSomeIP or SommR. Currently vSomeIP is used as the underlying implementation but this can be swapped with any compliant implementation in the future.

Key Benefits

• Macro-Based Definition: The smip macro simplifies the definition of services and methods, reducing the amount of code needed.
• Automatic Serialization/Deserialization: smip handles the serialization and deserialization of your service's data types, so you don't have to write it yourself.
• Rust-Idiomatic API: The framework's API is designed to be Rust-friendly, with a focus on clarity and simplicity.
• Improved Developer Experience: smip streamlines the development process, making it easier to create and manage SOME/IP services in Rust.

⚠️ This is a highly experimental framework and doesn't support all of the features in SOME/IP

Build

smip requires a working installation of vsomeip, for more info refer to the Install vsomeip section of the vsomeip-rs README.

Run

For a working demo see examples/simple.rs and examples/simple_client.rs:

To run locally,

cargo run --example simple

In another terminal,

cargo run --example simple_client

• You may need to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment to a path that contains the vSomeIP library as this is dynamically loaded LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

License

• smip is licensed under Apache 2.0, check LICENSE.md for more information.
• This project uses the vSomeIP library which is licensed under MPL 2.0.