Re: [Caml-list] RPC for OCaml?

[Jon Ludlam <jon@recoil.org>]

Mirage has a simple RPC generator that fits the same hole as Async-RPC,
which we use quite heavily in XenServer. It's camlp4 dependent right now,
which I'm keen to fix in the near future.

    github.com/mirage/ocaml-rpc 

I'll certainly be casting a careful eye over the Async-RPC versioning
support as our current versioning story is somewhat primitive.

Jon

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 09:52:13AM -0400, Yaron Minsky wrote:
> Async-RPC is perhaps worth looking at, though I agree it doesn't give
> you much of what you want --- certainly, we don't to RPC over HTTP, we
> do it over bog-standard TCP, and the protocol is very much
> OCaml-specific, being based on bin-io.  That said, it might be useful
> to look at for inspiration, in particular for how versioning is
> handled in Versioned_rpc.  We do also have some kerberos support in
> there as well, though I'm not sure that's in the open source release.
> 
> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 9:43 AM,  <rixed@happyleptic.org> wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > I'm thinking about implementing a library for doing RPC with OCaml, with large
> > scale environments in mind (à la Stubby but with better type checking of
> > course). I'm wondering what are the related libs I should make myself familiar
> > with before starting. I've seen a few interesting things for serialization
> > (piqi come to mind), some interesting event engines (LWT, Core), some protocol
> > implementations suitable for transport but no HTTP2, nothing to interface with
> > monitoring subsystems or TSDBs, nothing related to load balancing, routing,
> > DDoS detection, etc, some crypto, an interesting TLS implementation from
> > MirageOs, no OAuth or similar.
> >
> > What other related projects should I look at?
> >
> > Also, if anyone would be interested in contributing ideas, experience or code
> > please let me know.
> >
> >
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