Re: Announce: glib-jsonrpc

[Joakim Sindholt <opensource zhasha com>]

Made a github repo. It's very much a WIP and I can't remember offhand
exactly what's connected and what's not.

https://github.com/zhasha/json-rpc-glib

On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 09:30 +0200, Dov Grobgeld wrote:
> It would be nice to compare and perhaps merge the two projects. Any
> chance of you putting it up on a git repo?
> 
> Regarding async commands, my glib server does support it through the
> glib_jsonrcp_register_async_command(). There is an example in
> test-glib-jsonrcp-server as follows:
> 
>      glib_jsonrpc_server_register_async_command(server,
>                                              "async_ping",
>                                              cmd_async_ping,
>                                              NULL);
> 
> and then in cmd_async_ping:
> 
> 
>   int cmd_async_ping(GLibJsonRpcServer *server,
>                      const char *method,
>                      JsonNode *params,
>                      gpointer user_data)
>   {
>     g_timeout_add_seconds(2, async_pong, server);
> 
>     return 0;
>   }
> 
>   gboolean async_pong(gpointer data)
>   {
>     GLibJsonRpcServer *server = (GLibJsonRpcServer*)data;
>     JsonNode *response = json_node_new(JSON_NODE_VALUE);
>     json_node_set_string(response, "async_pong");
> 
>     glib_jsonrpc_server_send_async_response(server,
>                                             response);
>     return 0;
>   }
> 
> The catch is that the async command has to return immediately, but it
> can launch a long command through the g_timeout_add() or g_idle_add().
> This is also necessary if you want to update the gui, which runs in
> different thread.
> 
> Regards,
> Dov
> 
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 09:20, Joakim Sindholt <opensource zhasha com> wrote:
> > I've been writing a JSON-RPC library but it went on hold due to school.
> > It's not up on a public git repo right now but it's a tad more feature
> > complete than yours. I was working on supporting all encodings when I
> > last left off.
> >
> > On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 06:52 +0200, Dov Grobgeld wrote:
> >> I created jsonrpc client/server (http://json-rpc.org/) library through
> >> glib/gio for remote controlling my application. It is available at:
> >>
> >> https://github.com/dov/glib-jsonrpc
> >>
> >> Comments and contributions are welcome.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Dov
> >
> > One thing that's indispensible for JSON-RPC is async calls. Regardless
> > of whether you want to collaborate on this, you really need async
> > methods.
> >
> >