protosocket

Tools for building message-oriented tcp streams.

A protosocket is a non-blocking, bidirectional, message streaming connection. Providing a serializer and deserializer for your messages, you can stream to and from tcp servers.

Protosockets avoid too many opinions - you have (get?) to choose your own message ordering and concurrency semantics. You can make an implicitly ordered stream, or a non-blocking out-of-order stream, or anything in between.

Tools to facilitate protocol buffers over tcp are provided in protosocket-prost. You can see the protocol buffers example in example-proto. If you're only using rust, of course you can hand-write prost structs, but if you want to use a protosocket server with clients in other languages you'll want to generate from protos.

lib.rs:

Conveniences for writing protosocket servers.

See example-telnet for the simplest full example of the entire workings, or example-proto for an example of how to use this crate with protocol buffers.