Protocol

requests and responses of rpcx use the same message format.

One message contains:

  • Header: 4 bytes
  • Message ID: 8 bytes
  • total size: 4 bytes, doesn't contain size of header and itself, uint32
  • size of servicePath: 4 bytes, uint32
  • servicePath: UTF-8 string
  • size of serviceMethod: 4 bytes, uint32
  • serviceMethod: UTF-8 string
  • size of metadata: 4 bytes, uint32
  • metadata: format: size key1 string size value1 string, can contains multipl e=key, value
  • size of playload: 4 bytes, uint32
  • playload: slice of byte
    #4 + #6 + #8 + #10 + (4 + 4 + 4 + 4) must be equal to #3.

servicePathserviceMethodkey and value in metadata must be UTF-8 string.

rpcx uses size of an element + element format to define one element. It is like TLVbut rpcx doesn't use Type because Type of those elements are UTF-8 string.

Use BigEndian for size (integer type, int64, uint32, etc.)

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1、The first byte must be 0x08. It is a magic number.

2、The second byte is version. Current version is 0.

3、MessageType can be: 0: Request 1: Response

4、Heartbeat: bool. This message is heartbeat message or not

5、Oneway: bool. Need return response or not.

6、CompressType: 0: don't compress 1: Gzip

7、MessageStatusType: indicates response is an error or a normal response 0: Normal 1: Error

8、SerializeType 0: use raw bytes 1: JSON 2: Protobuf 3: MessagePack

If one service fails to handle requests, it can return an error. It sets MessageStatusType of response is 1 (ERROR) and sets the error message in metadata of the response. The key for the error is rpcx_error, and the value is error message.

By smallnest updated 2018-12-04 11:47:26