Remote Procedure Call over Redis

This library provides an RPC implementation over Redis.
To forward a request from the client to the service for the execution of the method, Redis Streams is used together with Consumer Groupss to distribute requests.
To forward the result of the method execution from the service to the client, Redis PubSub is used with unique client and request identifiers

Features

• Transparent forwarding of arguments and return value
• Supports/forces the use of Python type hints
• Built-in consistency check client-side with the server-side
• Supports multiple server-side instances at the same time, balancing via Redis
• Zeroconf, does not require open ports, addresses, HTTP API implementation, etc. Only Redis.
• Uses the built-in capabilities of Redis 5.0+ to forwarding in both directions

Installation

pip install rpc-over-redis

Using

First, you need to declare the server-side (service) app:
server.py

import os
from rpc_over_redis.core import RPCOverRedisService

redis_url = os.environ['REDIS_URL']     # REDIS_URL=redis://:password@redis/0

# initializing server-side
r = RPCOverRedisService(
    redis_url,
    'SmartEchoService'
)

@r.register
def echo() -> None:
    print('echo is called')
    pass

r.run_forever()

Then, you need to create a header class with empty methods.
Now you can use it like a regular class. The arguments and the return value will be transparently passed through Redis

import os
from rpc_over_redis.core import RPCOverRedisClient

class SmartEchoService(RPCOverRedisClient):
    def __init__(self, conn_url: str):
        super().__init__(conn_url, self.__class__.__name__, strict_validate_schema=True)

    def echo(self) -> None:
        ...

# initializing client-side
client = SmartEchoService(os.environ['REDIS_URL'])       # REDIS_URL=redis://:password@redis/0

# execute remote methods as local class methods...
client.echo()  # none returned

More examples see here

Additional options

// TODO

Limitations

• Only built-in types that allow to be converted to json/string should be used as arguments and return values.