On 12/10/2009 04:30 PM, Pavel Shramov wrote: > On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 12:10:33PM +0100, Romain François wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Following Kenton's advice, I'm starting to look at implementing protobuf >> rpc over http. I have started to work on a basic java server (based on >> the com.sun.net.httpserver class). I will post this at some point when I >> am happier with it (currently it can only serve one dummy service that >> returns the input message as is) >> >> A request looks like this : >> >> ----------------------------------------------------- >> POST /{service full name}/{method name} HTTP/1.0 >> Connection: close >> Content-Length: {length of the serialized message} >> >> {raw bytes of the serialized message} >> ----------------------------------------------------- > I'm using method name encoded in query part of URL like > /base/url?Service.Method
That seems odd. Why not /base/url?service=Service&method=Method instead ? > Also it's seem useful to provide Content-Type to distinguish between different > encodings of message (for example JSON). Yep. Will add this. >> 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} >> ----------------------------------------------------- > Also it may be useful to state that errors are transmitted as body of > 500 Internal Server Error response. > > > For my implementation You may see [1] and [2] for python and C++ HTTP client. I will. So this makes 3 very similar http based protocols, but slightly different. We should come to an agreement. :-) > Pavel > > [1] http://grid.pp.ru/wiki/pbufrpc > [2] http://grid.pp.ru/cgit/pbufrpc -- 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. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en.