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HessianD is an implementation of the Hessian Protocol (http://caucho.com/hessian), a binary webservice protocol, in the D programming language. Some of the high lights of this protocol are lightweight, self descriptor and a relatively complete set of data types including objects, maps and vectors.
In this regard this implementation tries to support most of the D language data types including user defined ones (classes and structs).
Project Status
The development of this project appears to have stalled with changeset 20 on 2007-05-31.
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Implementation details
HessianD implements both the server and the client part of the protocol model. Using some of the cool features of D, like meta programming, string mixins, tuples etc., the user of this implementation can enjoy some of the magic present in other implementation based on runtime reflection, only that this time it happens at compile time.
HessianD uses the Tango, Mango ant Meta libraries and supports the HTTP model. Hessian is pretty versatile and can be implemented over plain sockets, RS232 ...; a future release will offer an additional plain Socket implementation.
Examples
Client example
Lets say our Hessian server (D, Java, C++, C#, Ruby, PHP, Python etc.) defines an API interface like:
interface api { char[] echo (char[] param); }
We'll call this method like this:
import hessian.HttpProxy : HttpProxy; import tango.io.Stdout; void main () { // create a Http proxy on the given Http endpoint so we can post our Hessian stream scope service = new HttpProxy(" http://localhost:5667/test/hessiantest"); // create a proxy method that will do the Hessian serialization and deserialization auto echo = &service.proxy!(api.echo); // we'll perform the remote call and display the result Stdout ("Remote result: ") ( echo("Hello World!") ).newline.flush; }
Server example
If we need to expose the "echo" function from the above interface as a remote service we'll need to code the server as:
import hessian.HttpServer: Server; // create an implementation for the interface class impl : api { // return the input string back to the client char[] echo( char[] param) { return param; } } void main() { // create a Http server on the given port auto server = new Server(5667); // attach a context with the Http endpoint and the class implementing the method auto context = server.addContext!(impl)("/test/hessiantest"); // bind the method to the context created context.bind!(impl.echo); // and finally start listenning to Http Post requests server.start; }
For more examples please browse to hessian/tests modules in the source code.
License
HessianD is licensed under the BSD license.
Copyright (c) 2007, Radu Daniel Racariu
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