hodgesds / ztripper

ZMQ RoundTripper support for go

ZMQ RoundTripper support for go

ztripper is used for providing a RoundTripper interface that uses ZMQ as a transport. A RoundTripper is described as:

RoundTripper is an interface representing the ability to execute a single HTTP transaction, obtaining the Response for a given Request.

Why

After looking into HTTP2 support worked in go 1.6+ I decided it would be fun to try to make something similar work with ZMQ. The interesting result is that you can use a regular http.Client to make ZMQ requests.

Example

Run the server.py (requires pyzmq) and then run the following example:

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/hodgesds/ztripper"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	t := &http.Transport{}

	zReqTripper, err := ztripper.NewZmqTripper(ztripper.NewByteSerializer())
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer zReqTripper.Destroy()

	// register the zmq scheme to the transport
	// XXX: different schemes for different socket types?
	t.RegisterProtocol("zmq", zReqTripper)

	c := &http.Client{Transport: t}

	res, err := c.Get("zmq://127.0.0.1:8001/foo/bar/baz?qux=1")
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	fmt.Println(res)
}