tcurl

tcurl

A command line utility to talk to a tchannel server

tcurl -p host:port <service> <endpoint> [options]

  Options:
    -2 [data] send an arg2 blob
    -3 [data] send an arg3 blob
    --shardKey send ringpop shardKey transport header
    --depth=n configure inspect printing depth
    -j print JSON
    -J [indent] print JSON with indentation
    -t [dir] directory containing Thrift files

Installation

npm install tcurl

Examples

Thrift

For the purposes of these examples, let's assume that you have a TChannel server listening on localhost:1234. The server registers handlers for the thrift interface saved as services/chamber.thrift and defined as:

struct EchoRequest {
  1: required string input;
}

service Chamber {
  string echo(
    1: required EchoRequest request;
  )
}

You could use TCurl to query this service by running:

tcurl -p localhost:1234 chamber Chamber::echo -t ./services -3 '{"request": {"input": "foo"}}'

localhost caveat

For TChannel and Hyperbahn to work together effectively, most tchannel services need to listen on the external IP of the host they are running on.

This means when you use 127.0.0.1 you cannot reach the service with tcurl as it's not listening on loopback.

To make supporting external IPs easier we've made localhost resolve to the external IP of the machine. This means if your listening on loopback you have to use 127.0.0.1 and not localhost

NPM scripts

• npm run add-licence This will add the licence headers.
• npm run cover This runs the tests with code coverage
• npm run lint This will run the linter on your code
• npm test This will run the tests.
• npm run trace This will run your tests in tracing mode.
• npm run travis This is run by travis.CI to run your tests
• npm run view-cover This will show code coverage in a browser

Contributors

• Raynos
• ShanniLi

MIT Licenced