JSON-RPC/XML-RPC Server for Rack Applications
Version: {include:file:VERSION.txt}
- The latest documentation can always be found at http://rack-rpc.github.io/rack-rpc.
- Source code repository lives here, at GitHub.
- The gems can be found here, at RubyGems.
Rack::RPC is Rack middleware that facilitates the creation of protocol-agnostic RPC servers. The current implementation provides support for JSON-RPC 2.0 and XML-RPC.
- Handles JSON-RPC and XML-RPC requests with the same code.
- Compatible with any Rack application and any Rack-based framework.
- Provides Rails-style controller filtering for your RPC methods.
Examples
A basic RPC server
require 'rack/rpc'
class Server < Rack::RPC::Server
def hello_world
"Hello, world!"
end
rpc 'hello_world' => :hello_world
end
Simple filtering
require 'rack/rpc'
class Server < Rack::RPC::Server
before_filter :check_auth
def hello_world
"Hello, world!"
end
rpc 'hello_world' => :hello_world
private
def check_auth
raise "Not authorized" unless authorized
end
end
Filtering via a proc with more options
require 'rack/rpc'
class Server < Rack::RPC::Server
before_filter :check_auth, :only => :super_secret_hello_world do
raise "Not authorized" unless authorized
end
def hello_world
"Hello, world!"
end
rpc 'hello_world' => :hello_world
def super_secret_hello_world
'super_secret_hello_world'
end
rpc 'super_secret_hello_world' => :super_secret_hello_world
end
Running the server
# config.ru
use Rack::RPC::Endpoint, Server.new
run MyApplication
Customizing the default RPC path
# config.ru
use Rack::RPC::Endpoint, Server.new, :path => '/api'
run MyApplication
More on Filters
The :only
and :except
options for filters can take a single method or an
array of methods.
You can halt execution in a filter by raising an exception. An error response will be returned with the exception's message set as the error object's message text.
Communicationg with the Server
By default, methods will only be invoked on POST
requests to "/rpc". The
default path can be overridden by sending a :path
option when creating
your middleware (see example above).
The protocol used is determined by the CONTENT_TYPE
header
("application/xml" and "text/xml" for XML and "application/json" for JSON).
Dependencies
Installation
The recommended installation method is via RubyGems. To install the latest official release of the gem, run:
gem install rack-rpc
To get a local working copy of the development repository, do:
git clone git://github.com/rack-rpc/rack-rpc.git
Alternatively, download the latest development version as a tarball as follows:
wget https://github.com/rack-rpc/rack-rpc/tarball/master
Authors
License
This is free and unencumbered public domain software. For more information, see http://unlicense.org/ or the accompanying {file:UNLICENSE.md} file.