Hello,
Thanks to the magic of RTTI and Invoke(), creating a JSON-RPC server has just become significantly easier !
Given an interface definition:
IMyOtherInterface = interface ['{4D52BEE3-F709-44AC-BD31-870CBFF44632}']
Function SayHello : string;
function Echo(args : TStringArray) : String;
end;Creating a JSON-RPC server for this is now as simple as:
// Create a class that implements the interface
Type
TIntf2Impl = class(TInterfacedObject, IMyOtherInterface)
public
function Echo(args: TStringArray): String;
function SayHello: string;
end;
function TIntf2Impl.Echo(args: TStringArray): String;
var
S : String;
begin
Result:='';
For S in Args do
begin
if Result'' then
Result:=Result+' ';
Result:=Result+S;
end
end;
function TIntf2Impl.SayHello: string;
begin
Result:='Hello, World!';
end;
// Register the class using an interface factory:
Function GetMyOtherInterface(Const aName : string) : IInterface;
begin
Result:=TIntf2Impl.Create as IInterface;
end;
initialization
RTTIJSONRPCRegistry.Add(TypeInfo(IMyOtherInterface),@GetMyOtherInterface,'Service2');
end.And calling it from a client program is even more simple:
var
client: IMyOtherInterface;
aRPCClient: TFPRPCClient;
begin
// Register interface with name 'Service2'
RPCServiceRegistry.Add(TypeInfo(IMyOtherInterface),'Service2');
// Create client
aRPCClient:=TFPRPCClient.Create(Nil);
aRPCClient.BaseURL:='http://localhost:8080/RPC';
// Just typecast the client to the desired interface
Client:=aRPCClient as IMyotherInterface;
// or explitly create using the registered service name
// Client:=RPC.Specialize CreateService<IMyotherInterface>('Service2');
Writeln('Sayhello: ',client.SayHello);
Writeln('Sayhello: ',client.Echo(['This','is','Sparta']));
end.The service can also be consumed by pas2js.
The support for various argument types is still limited, but this will improve soon. Currently simple types and arrays of simple types are improved. Proper support for records and other structured types needs extended RTTI...
An example server and client programs have been committed to the FPC repo. (packages/fcl-web/examples/jsonrpc/rtti)
With many thanks to Sven Barth for putting me on the right track...
Enjoy!
Michael.