JMP

jmp is an npm module for creating, parsing and replying to messages of the Jupyter Messaging Protocol over ZMQ sockets.

jmp vs jmp-prebuilt

JMP is currently distributed in two flavours:

• npm install jmp that requires that node-gyp, a compiler and the ZMQ library are installed in the user's computer (e.g. in Ubuntu, the user needs to run sudo apt-get install libzmq3-dev before installing JMP).

• npm install jmp-prebuilt that depends on zmq-prebuilt. zmq-prebuilt provides precompiled binaries of the ZMQ library (Note that zmq-prebuilt is still work in progress).

The development of jmp-prebuilt is taking place in the branch jmp-prebuilt of this repository. If you wish to make any contributions to jmp-prebuilt, please, ensure your PR targets this branch.

Anouncements

• Version v0.5.0 is is backwards-incompatible. The attribute Message#blobs has been renamed to Message#buffers. See issue #14.

• Version v0.4.0 is is backwards-incompatible. The attribute Message#signatureOK has been removed. See issue #10.

• Version v0.2.0 is backwards-incompatible. The attribute Message#parentHeader has been renamed to Message#parent_header. See issue #7.

• Version v0.1.0 is backwards-incompatible. npm packages depending on the initial release of JMP need to update their dependency field:

"jmp": "<0.1.0",

Install

The latest stable release is published on npm and can be installed by running:

npm install jmp

The master branch in the github repository provides the latest development version and can be installed by:

git clone https://github.com/n-riesco/jmp.git
npm install ./jmp

Branch v0.0 provides the latest version of JMP, backwards-compatible with the first release. It can be installed from npm:

npm install "jmp@<0.1.0"

or github:

git clone -b v0.0 https://github.com/n-riesco/jmp.git
npm install ./jmp

Usage

Import modules

JMP depends on ZMQ and for convenience JMP exports the module zmq:

var crypto = require("crypto");
var uuid = require("node-uuid");

var jmp = require("jmp");
var zmq = jmp.zmq;

Create JMP sockets

var scheme = "sha256";
var key = crypto.randomBytes(256).toString('base64');

var serverSocket = new jmp.Socket("router", scheme, key);
var clientSocket = new jmp.Socket("dealer", scheme, key);

var address = "tcp://127.0.0.1:8888";

serverSocket.bindSync(address);
clientSocket.connect(address);

Create a JMP message from scratch

var request = new jmp.Message();

request.idents = [];
request.header = {
    "msg_id": uuid.v4(),
    "username": "user",
    "session": uuid.v4(),
    "msg_type": "kernel_info_request",
    "version": "5.0",
};
request.parent_header = {};
request.metadata = {};
request.content = {};

Send a message over a JMP socket

clientSocket.send(request);

Listen on a JMP socket and respond to a message

serverSocket.on("message", onRequest);

function onRequest(msg) {
    var responseMessageType = "kernel_info_reply";

    var responseContent = {
        "protocol_version": "0.0.0",
        "implementation": "kernel",
        "implementation_version": "0.0.0",
        "language_info": {
            "name": "test",
            "version": "0.0.0",
            "mimetype": "text/plain",
            "file_extension": "test",
        },
        "banner": "Test",
        "help_links": [{
            "text": "JMP",
            "url": "https://github.com/n-riesco/nel",
        }],
    };

    var responseMetadata = {};

    msg.respond(
        serverSocket, responseMessageType, responseContent, reponseMetadata
    );
}

Remove listeners and close sockets

serverSocket.removeListener("message", getRequest);
serverSocket.close()
clientSocket.close()

Documentation

Documentation generated using JSDoc can be found here.

Contributions

First of all, thank you for taking the time to contribute. Please, read CONTRIBUTING.md and use the issue tracker for any contributions: support requests, bug reports, enhancement requests, pull requests, ...