json-rpc client

JSON-RPC 2.0 TCP implementation with persistent connections using promises - very fast and without dependencies

Installation

npm install json-rpc-client

Example usage

Native promise

var jsonrpc = require('json-rpc-client')

// create client and connect
var client = new jsonrpc({ port: 7070, host: '127.0.0.1'})
client.connect().then(function()
{
    // send json rpc
    client.send('add', [1,2]).then(function(reply)
    {
        // print complete reply
        console.log(reply)
    },
    //transport errors
    function(error)
    {
        console.error(error)
    })
},
function(error)
{
    console.error(error)
})

Generators (using co)

var jsonrpc = require('json-rpc-client')

// create client and connect
var client = new jsonrpc({ port: 7070, host: '127.0.0.1'})

try
{
    yield client.connect()

    // send json rpc
    var reply = yield client.send('add', [1,2])

    // print complete reply
    console.log(reply)
}
catch(error)
{
    console.error(error)
}

API

var jsonrpc = require('./jsonrpc')

jsonrpc (options)

Creates a new RPC connection object.

Options:

• host: Host the client should connect to. Defaults to '127.0.0.1'.
• port: Port the client should connect to. Defaults to '7070'.

connect

Returns promise which resolves after the connection to the specified host is ready

send (methodName, parameters, notification)

Sends json data through persisted tcp connection.

methodName: string

parameters: Object/Array with parameters

notification: true/false to make notification request (no reply)

• Promise - object containing reply data along with error

close

Closes RPC connection and returns promise afterwards.

Event 'error'

• 'Error Object'

Emitted when an error occurs.

Event: 'close'

• 'had_error' 'Boolean' true if the socket had a transmission error

Emitted once the RPC connection socket is fully closed. The argument 'had_error' is a boolean which says if there was an error.