jimil749 / go-plugins

go-plugins

A comparision of go plugin package and other plugin implementations for Go.

Following packages have been used:

1. hashicorp go-plugin (via gRPC)
2. pie plugin: (via rpc)
3. Native Go plugin

Todo

Benchmarking

Plugin

Each plugin framework has been used to build Key/Value store CLI where mechanism for storing and retrieving keys is pluggable.

1. Building hashicorp go-plugin

$ cd hashicorp-go-plugin

# Build the main CLI
$ go build -o kv

# build the grpc plugin
$ go build -o kv-go-grpc ./plugin


# This tells the KV binary to use the "kv-go-grpc" binary
$ export KV_PLUGIN="./kv-go-grpc"

# Read and write
$ ./kv put hello world

$ ./kv get hello
world

2. Building pie go plugin

$ cd pie-plugin

$ cd plugin_provider

# Build the plugin
$ go build -o plugin_provider

# Add the binary to $PATH or move the binary to master_provider
$ export PATH="path/to/plugin_provider:$PATH"

$ cd ../master_provider

# run the master
$ go run main.go

3. Native Go plugin

$ cd native-go-plugin

# Build the plugin
$ go build -buildmode=plugin -o kv.so

# Run main.go
$ go run ../main.go