// Copyright 2015 The go-ethereum Authors // This file is part of the go-ethereum library. // // The go-ethereum library is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify // it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by // the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or // (at your option) any later version. // // The go-ethereum library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, // but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of // MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the // GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. // // You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License // along with the go-ethereum library. If not, see . package rpc import ( "encoding/json" "net" ) // CreateIPCListener creates an listener, on Unix platforms this is a unix socket, on Windows this is a named pipe func CreateIPCListener(endpoint string) (net.Listener, error) { return ipcListen(endpoint) } // ipcClient represent an IPC RPC client. It will connect to a given endpoint and tries to communicate with a node using // JSON serialization. type ipcClient struct { endpoint string conn net.Conn out *json.Encoder in *json.Decoder } // NewIPCClient create a new IPC client that will connect on the given endpoint. Messages are JSON encoded and encoded. // On Unix it assumes the endpoint is the full path to a unix socket, and Windows the endpoint is an identifier for a // named pipe. func NewIPCClient(endpoint string) (Client, error) { conn, err := newIPCConnection(endpoint) if err != nil { return nil, err } return &ipcClient{endpoint: endpoint, conn: conn, in: json.NewDecoder(conn), out: json.NewEncoder(conn)}, nil } // Send will serialize the given message and send it to the server. // When sending the message fails it will try to reconnect once and send the message again. func (client *ipcClient) Send(msg interface{}) error { if err := client.out.Encode(msg); err == nil { return nil } // retry once client.conn.Close() conn, err := newIPCConnection(client.endpoint) if err != nil { return err } client.conn = conn client.in = json.NewDecoder(conn) client.out = json.NewEncoder(conn) return client.out.Encode(msg) } // Recv will read a message from the connection and tries to parse it. It assumes the received message is JSON encoded. func (client *ipcClient) Recv(msg interface{}) error { return client.in.Decode(&msg) } // Close will close the underlying IPC connection func (client *ipcClient) Close() { client.conn.Close() } // SupportedModules will return the collection of offered RPC modules. func (client *ipcClient) SupportedModules() (map[string]string, error) { return SupportedModules(client) }