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JSON-RPC 2.0 + OpenRPC Server implementation that supports multiple transport protocols. Built to run with node 10+.

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How to Use

install server, and optionally schema-utils-js if you want to dereference/validate the open-rpc document before running.

npm install --save @open-rpc/server-js @open-rpc/schema-utils-js

Write an open-rpc document describing your service ./src/openrpc.json see: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/open-rpc/examples/master/service-descriptions/simple-math-openrpc.json or write your own in playground.

For each of the methods, create a function that has the same name src/method-mapping

import { MethodMapping } from "@open-rpc/server-js/build/router"; export const methodMapping: MethodMapping = { addition: (a: number, b: number) => a + b, subtraction: (a: number, b: number) => a - b }; export default methodMapping;

Create a server with the methods and the document, serve it over http and websocket src/server.ts

import { Server, ServerOptions } from "@open-rpc/server-js"; import { HTTPServerTransportOptions } from "@open-rpc/server-js/build/transports/http"; import { WebSocketServerTransportOptions } from "@open-rpc/server-js/build/transports/websocket"; import { OpenrpcDocument } from "@open-rpc/meta-schema"; import { parseOpenRPCDocument } from "@open-rpc/schema-utils-js"; import methodMapping from "./method-mapping"; import doc from "./openrpc.json"; export async function start() { const serverOptions: ServerOptions = { openrpcDocument: await parseOpenRPCDocument(doc as OpenrpcDocument), transportConfigs: [ { type: "HTTPTransport", options: { port: 3330, middleware: [], } as HTTPServerTransportOptions, }, { type: "WebSocketTransport", options: { port: 3331, middleware: [], } as WebSocketServerTransportOptions, }, ], methodMapping, }; console.log("Starting Server"); // tslint:disable-line const s = new Server(serverOptions); s.start(); }

Lower Level Bits

Creating Routers
using method mapping and OpenRPC document
import { types } from "@open-rpc/meta-schema"; import { Router } from "@open-rpc/server-js"; const openrpcDocument = { openrpc: "1.0.0", info: { title: "node-json-rpc-server example", version: "1.0.0" }, methods: [ { name: "addition", params: [ { name: "a", schema: { type: "integer" } }, { name: "b", schema: { type: "integer" } } ], result: { { name: "c", schema: { type: "integer" } } } } ] } as types.OpenRPC; const methodHandlerMapping = { addition: (a: number, b: number) => Promise.resolve(a + b) }; const router = new Router(openrpcDocument, methodHandlerMapping);
mock mode
const router = new Router(openrpcDocument, { mockMode: true });
Creating Transports
IPC
import { TCPIPCServerTranport, UDPIPCServerTranport } from "@open-rpc/server-js"; const ipcOptions = { maxConnetions: 20 }; // https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-ipc#ipc-config const TCPIPCOptions = { ...ipcOptions, networkPort: 4343 }; const UDPIPCOptions = { ...ipcOptions, networkPort: 4343, udp: true }; const tcpIpcTransport = new IPCServerTranport(TCPIPCTransportOptions); const UdpIpcTransport = new IPCServerTranport(UDPIPCTransportOptions);
HTTP/S
import { HTTPServerTransport, HTTPSServerTransport } from "@open-rpc/server-js"; import express from "express"; const existingApp = express(); const httpOptions = { middleware: [ cors({ origin: "*" }) ], port: 4345, app: existingApp, // optional existing express/connect app }; const httpsOptions = { // extends https://nodejs.org/api/https.html#https_https_createserver_options_requestlistener middleware: [ cors({ origin: "*" }) ], port: 4346, key: await fs.readFile("test/fixtures/keys/agent2-key.pem"), cert: await fs.readFile("test/fixtures/keys/agent2-cert.pem"), ca: fs.readFileSync("ssl/ca.crt") }; const httpTransport = new HTTPServerTransport(httpOptions); const httpsTransport = new HTTPSServerTransport(httpsOptions); // Defaults to using HTTP2, allows HTTP1. 
WebSockets
import { WebSocketServerTransport } from "@open-rpc/server-js"; const webSocketFromHttpsOptions = { // extends https://github.com/websockets/ws/blob/master/doc/ws.md#new-websocketserveroptions-callback server: httpsTransport.server }; const webSocketOptions = { // extends https://github.com/websockets/ws/blob/master/doc/ws.md#new-websocketserveroptions-callback port: 4347 }; const wsFromHttpsTransport = new WebSocketServerTransport(webSocketFromHttpsOptions); // Accepts http transport as well. const wsTransport = new WebSocketServerTransport(webSocketOptions); // Accepts http transport as well. 
Add components as you go
const server = new Server(); server.start(); server.addTransport(httpsTransport); // will be started immediately server.setRouter(router); server.addTransports([ wsTransport, wsFromHttpsTransport, httpsTransport ]); // will be started immediately. 

Contributing

How to contribute, build and release are outlined in CONTRIBUTING.md, BUILDING.md and RELEASING.md respectively. Commits in this repository follow the CONVENTIONAL_COMMITS.md specification.

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