PrabodhaNirmani / golang-rpc-example

A simple distributed application for vegetable sales system using Go language and Remote Procedure Calls (RPC)

Golang RPC Example

A simple distributed application for vegetable sales system using Go language and Remote Procedure Calls(RPC)

This repository contains a client and a server which communicates using rpc. Clients can use server functions to do the following tasks.

1. Receive a list of all available vegetables and display
2. Get the price per kg of a given vegetable and display
3. Get the available amount of kg of a given vegetable and display
4. Send a new vegetable name to the server to be added to the server file
5. Send new price or available amount for a given vegetable to be updated in the server file

Prerequisite

You need to have Go installed in your machine. Tested version - 1.13

How to run

1. Clone the project in to your local machine.
2. Open up a terminal and execute the command cd <cloned-path>/golang-rpc-example/server by replacing the placeholder.
3. Execute the command go run server.go , This will start up the server with port 9000.
4. Open up a new terminal and execute the command cd <cloned-path>/golang-rpc-example/client by replacing the placeholder.
5. Execute the command go run client.go , This will start up the client.