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phunt/avro-rpc-quickstart: Apache Avro RPC Quick Start.

Author: Patrick Hunt (follow me on twitter)

This is a starter kit, a project template if you will, for Apache Avro intended to bootstrap your Avro based project. You'll learn how to declare a protocol, generate and compile your code, and run a working "Hello World" type example.

From the official site: "Avro is a data serialization system"

Avro provides:

• Rich data structures.
• A compact, fast, binary data format.
• A container file, to store persistent data.
• Remote procedure call (RPC).
• Simple integration with dynamic languages. Code generation is not required to read or write data files nor to use or implement RPC protocols. Code generation as an optional optimization, only worth implementing for statically typed languages.

This project is licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0

The sample application included in this project simulates a remote service, Mail, where Avro RPC is used to send a message using the service. This document details how to build and run the sample using Maven. The Avro jar files (and jars they depend upon) will be downloaded automatically.

In this sample project you will find four sets of files:

1. This documentation
2. Sample Avro protocol declaration
3. Java quick start
   • Maven build file
   • Sample application - i.e. Main program
4. Python quick start
   • Sample application - i.e. client/server scripts
5. Ruby quick start
   • Sample application - i.e. client/server scripts

Notice that all examples (java, python, and ruby) share the same Avro protocol declaration. I've not demonstrated it here, but the implementations are interoperable - the java client can talk to the python server and vice-versa (which I'll leave as an exercise for the reader).

src/main/avro should contain all of the Avro protocol & schema specifications. mail.avpr declares our simple "Mail" service. You will see:

1. the name & namespace of the protocol
2. any specialized types used in the messages, Message in this case
3. we are declaring a "send" message type which takes a Message as an argument and returns a result string

Read more about Avro's protocol declaration

• Java
• Python
• Ruby

Each of these implementions is detailed below:

• Maven

• pom.xml - this file specifies the dependencies of the project, primarily Avro itself.

You'll see the plugin section, which contains:

This plugin element causes the Avro Maven Plugin's compile goal to run during the "generate-sources" maven phase.

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.avro</groupId>
                <artifactId>avro-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>${avro.version}</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>schemas</id>
                        <phase>generate-sources</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>schema</goal>
                            <goal>protocol</goal>
                            <goal>idl-protocol</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>

src/main/java/example/Main.java

1. the MailImpl class implements the Mail protocol defined in mail.avpr
2. the startServer() method starts the server which implements the Mail service (Mail/MailImpl)
3. the main function takes three arguments; to, from and body of the message. After the server is started a Mail client is created, attached to the service, and used to send a "Message", the result of the RPC call is printed to the console.

All generated files (source, class, etc...) are written to the "target" directory.

mvn compile

Note: integration with eclipse is very simple. Just type "mvn eclipse:eclipse" (see the maven-eclipse-plugin documentation for more details).

mvn -e exec:java -Dexec.mainClass=example.Main -Dexec.args='avro_user pat Hello_World'

Avro is available from pypi

It seems that the Avro python egg requires snappy:

sudo apt-get install libsnappy-dev # 'brew install snappy' if you're on Mac
sudo pip install python-snappy
sudo pip install avro

Note that a separate package is provided for Python3:

sudo pip3 install avro-python3

Run this first to start the python avro Mail server.

1. the MailResponder class implements the Mail protocol defined in mail.avpr
2. main starts the server which implements the Mail service (Mail/MailResponder)

You'll see that the structure of the python code is similar to the java/ruby source.

src/main/python/send_message.py

1. the main function takes three arguments; to, from and body of the message. After the server is started a Mail client is created, attached to the service, and used to send a "Message", the result of the RPC call is printed to the console.

From the src/main/python directory run:

./start_server.py

then in a separate shell run:

./send_message.py avro_user pat Hello_World

Install the avro ruby gem

sudo gem install avro

Run this first to start the ruby avro Mail server.

1. the MailResponder class implements the Mail protocol defined in mail.avpr
2. main starts the server which implements the Mail service (Mail/MailResponder)

You'll see that the structure of the ruby code is similar to the java/python source.

src/main/ruby/sample_ipc_client.rb

1. the main function takes three arguments; to, from and body of the message. After the server is started a Mail client is created, attached to the service, and used to send a "Message", the result of the RPC call is printed to the console.

From the src/main/ruby directory run:

ruby -r 'rubygems' ./sample_ipc_server.rb

then in a separate shell run:

ruby -r 'rubygems' ./sample_ipc_client.rb avro_user pat Hello_World

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