ZeroServices

Network services made easy and Micro-Services architectures made so easy.

• Free software: MIT license
• Documentation: https://zeroservices.readthedocs.org.

QuickStart

Let’s imagine you want an API exposing two resources Foo and Bar.

First some imports:

from zeroservices import ZeroMQMedium, ResourceService, RealtimeResourceService
from zeroservices.backend.mongodb import MongoDBCollection, MongoDBResource
from zeroservices.services import get_http_interface

Now we declare a Service, it’s one node in the cluster:

service = RealtimeResourceService('test', ZeroMQMedium(port_random=True))

We give it a name test and tell it to use ZeroMQ for communication.

Now let’s register our resources.

service.register_resource(MongoDBCollection("foo", database_name="test"))
service.register_resource(MongoDBCollection("bar", database_name="test"))

We declare two resources, foo and bar, both using the test MongoDB database.

Last but not the least, we still need our API but before we need to declare how users will be authenticated, let’s allow all users right now:

class Auth(object):

    def authorized(self, handler, resource, method):
        return True

And now let’s add an API using this Auth logic:

api = get_http_interface(service, port='5001', auth=Auth(), allowed_origins="*")

We use the get_http_interface, pass the service and our custom Auth object. We tell the API to listen on 5001 port and allow all origins (for CORS requests).

And now let’s start the whole service:

service.main()

The whole example file will look like:

from zeroservices import ZeroMQMedium, ResourceService, RealtimeResourceService
from zeroservices.backend.mongodb import MongoDBCollection, MongoDBResource
from zeroservices.services import get_http_interface


class Auth(object):

    def authorized(self, handler, resource, method):
        return True


if __name__ == '__main__':
    service = RealtimeResourceService('test', ZeroMQMedium(port_random=True))
    api = get_http_interface(service, port='5001', auth=Auth(), allowed_origins="*")
    service.register_resource(MongoDBCollection("foo", "test"))
    service.register_resource(MongoDBCollection("bar", "test"))

    service.main()

Let’s play with our API now (I use the awesome httpie project for examples):

$> http localhost:5001
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: X-CUSTOM-ACTION
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Content-Length: 20
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 22:43:19 GMT
Etag: "af6572026125710f90d41f0ffe6e63e6f4089ece"
Server: TornadoServer/4.0.2

Hello world from api

Nothing fancy here, let’s try to play with our foo resource (I will drop some useless headers for readibility):

$> http localhost:5001/foo/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

[]

Let’s try to add a new foo resource:

$> http POST localhost:5001/foo/ resource_id=#1 resource_data:='{"hello": "world"}'

Skeleton generator

You will find in skeletons directory some cookiecutter templates that you can use to quickstart a new project or play quickly with ZeroServices.

Install cookiecutter (https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter), go into one subdirectory and type:

cookiecutter .

Answer all questions and then you will have a directory with your brand new project.

Event sniffer

You’ll find a event sniffer in bin directory, it will output all events in the network, here is an example:

$> python sniffer.py
INFO:sniffer.medium:Set service sniffer, node_info: {'pub_port': 55655, 'node_type': 'node', 'node_id': 'f1be938ad5fb4c70920815b67cdd52e4', 'name': 'sniffer', 'server_port': 62103}

[power.create.power_1] ({u'action': u'create', u'resource_name': u'power', u'resource_data': {u'status': u'pending', u'description': u'My first autosum resource', u'value': 42}, u'resource_id': u'power_1'},) {}
[power.patch.power_1] ({u'action': u'patch', u'patch': {u'$set': {u'status': u'done', u'result': 1764}}, u'resource_name': u'power', u'resource_id': u'power_1'},) {}
[power.create.power_3] ({u'action': u'create', u'resource_name': u'power', u'resource_data': {u'status': u'pending', u'description': u'Another one', u'value': 3}, u'resource_id': u'power_3'},) {}
[power.patch.power_3] ({u'action': u'patch', u'patch': {u'$set': {u'status': u'done', u'result': 9}}, u'resource_name': u'power', u'resource_id': u'power_3'},) {}
[power.create.power_5] ({u'action': u'create', u'resource_name': u'power', u'resource_data': {u'status': u'pending', u'description': u'Another one which should be process immediately', u'value': 24}, u'resource_id': u'power_5'},) {}
[power.patch.power_5] ({u'action': u'patch', u'patch': {u'$set': {u'status': u'done', u'result': 576}}, u'resource_name': u'power', u'resource_id': u'power_5'},) {}

Features

• TODO