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github.com/deliveroo/jsonrpc-go
Package jsonrpc implements a microframework for writing JSON-RPC web applications.
Methods are defined as:
func(ctx context.Context, params T) (interface{}, error) // JSON unmarshable params
func(ctx context.Context) (interface{}, error) // no params
where T
can be any time which can be unmarshaled from JSON (structs and
primitives).
If a method returns a value along with a nil error, the value will be rendered to the client as JSON.
If an error is returned, it will be sanitized and returned to the client as
json. Errors generated by a call to jsonrpc.Error(name, message, args)
will be
rendered as-is to the client. Any other errors will be obfuscated to the caller
(unless server.DumpErrors
is enabled).
jsonrpc
loosely follows the JSON-RPC 2.0
Specification, with some notable
differences:
Name
string, rather than an integer Code
var logger = log.New(os.Stderr, "server: ", 0)
func main() {
server := jsonrpc.New()
server.Use(LoggingMiddleware(logger))
server.Register(jsonrpc.Methods{
"Hello": hello,
})
http.ListenAndServe(":80", server)
}
type helloParams struct {
Name string `json:"name"`
}
func hello(ctx context.Context, params *helloParams) (interface{}, error) {
return jsonrpc.M{"message": fmt.Sprintf("Hello, %s", params.Name)}, nil
}
func LoggingMiddleware(logger *logger.Logger) Middleware {
return func (next jsonrpc.Next) jsonrpc.Next {
return func(ctx context.Context, params interface{}) (interface{}, error) {
method := jsonrpc.MethodFromContext(ctx)
start := time.Now()
defer func() {
logger.Printf("%s (%v)\n", method, time.Since(start))
}()
return next(ctx, params)
}
}
}
Request:
{
"id": 1,
"method": "Hello",
"params": {
"name": "Alice"
}
}
Response:
{
"id": 1,
"result": {
"message": "Hello, Alice!"
}
}
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