Coincidentally, last weekend I started working on an open source protobuf-based RPC system. Currently I am defining a socket-level protocol, but I also intend to support an HTTP-level protocol with optional JSON encoding to allow calls from Javascript. I stuck some totally undocumented code here:
http://pbcap.googlecode.com But some coworkers pointed out that the name is confusingly similar to "pcap", so I'm planning to change it. Currently this is not an official Google project; I'm working on it in my spare time. 2009/12/9 Romain François <francoisrom...@free.fr> > A request looks like this : > > ----------------------------------------------------- > POST /{service full name}/{method name} HTTP/1.0 > I would recommend against putting the service type name in the URL. This makes it impossible to export two services of the same type. Instead, you should allow the application to register services under any name it chooses. I'd also suggest making the method name be part of the query, like: POST /someservice?method={method name} This may be a matter of taste, but I feel like a service object should be a single HTTP "resource", rather than have each method be a separate resource. > Connection: close > Why not allow pipelining? > Content-Length: {length of the serialized message} > > {raw bytes of the serialized message} > ----------------------------------------------------- > > And a successful response looks like this: > > ----------------------------------------------------- > HTTP/1.1 200 OK > Content-length: {length of the serialized response} > > {raw bytes of the serialized response} > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Since this is very early in this, I wondered if others would have views > on this. > > http is quite verbose for sending protobuf message around, but it is > likely to be implemented for a lot of languages. > > Regards, > > Romain > > -- > Romain Francois > Professional R Enthusiast > +33(0) 6 28 91 30 30 > http://romainfrancois.blog.free.fr > |- http://tr.im/Gq7i : ohloh > |- http://tr.im/FtUu : new package : highlight > `- http://tr.im/EAD5 : LondonR slides > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Protocol Buffers" group. > To post to this group, send email to proto...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<protobuf%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To post to this group, send email to proto...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en.
