JsonRPC

An implementation of the JSON RPC protocol version 2.

This library provides functions to generate and handle JSON RPC requests, responses and error responses. For the transport of the generate RPC data the behaviour JsonRPC.Transport must be implemented.

Installation

The package can be installed by adding json_rpc to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:json_rpc, "~> 0.1"}
    # {:jason, "~> 1.2"}
    # {:poison, "~> 5.0"}
  ]
end

JsonRPC uses jason per default. To customize the JSON library, including the following in your config:

config :json_rpc, parser: :poison

Examples

This repo contains some examples of how to us JsonRPC.

• SimRpc shows the usage with a "simulated" server. Similar to the example in section Usage.
• phx_server shows a server implementation with a HTTP endpoint and a WebSocket.
• http_client shows a HTTP client that communicates with the example server implemented in phx_server
• ws_client shows a WebSocket client that communicates with the example server implemented in phx_server

Usage

A quick simple example, for more information see the documentation and the examples.

A client:

defmodule Client do
  use JsonRPC, transport: Transport

  rpc add(a, b)
end

An implementation of the behaviour JsonRPC.Transport:

defmodule Transport do
  @behaviour JsonRPC.Transport

  @impl
  def send_rpc(json, _opts) do
    Process.spawn(Transport, :server, [json], [])
    :ok
  end

  def server(json) do
    json
    |> JsonRPC.handle_request(Math)
    |> JsonRPC.handle_response()
  end
end

The module containing the function to be called:

defmodule Math do
  def add(a, b), do: a + b
end

Using the client:

iex> Client.add(1, 2)
{:ok, 3}