The tests were failing due to an occasional deadlock in SerializationTraits
for Error: Both serializers and deserializers were protected by a single
mutex and in the unit test (where both ends of the RPC are in the same
process) one side might obtain the mutex, then block waiting for input,
leaving the other side of the connection unable to obtain the mutex to
write the data the first side was waiting for. Splitting the mutex into
two (one for serialization, one for deserialization) appears to have fixed the
issue.
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This patch allows Error and Expected types to be passed to and returned from
RPC functions.
Serializers and deserializers for custom error types (types deriving from the
ErrorInfo class template) can be registered with the SerializationTraits for
a given channel type (see registerStringError in RPCSerialization.h for an
example), allowing a given custom type to be sent/received. Unregistered types
will be serialized/deserialized as StringErrors using the custom type's log
message as the error string.
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(1) Add support for function key negotiation.
The previous version of the RPC required both sides to maintain the same
enumeration for functions in the API. This means that any version skew between
the client and server would result in communication failure.
With this version of the patch functions (and serializable types) are defined
with string names, and the derived function signature strings are used to
negotiate the actual function keys (which are used for efficient call
serialization). This allows clients to connect to any server that supports a
superset of the API (based on the function signatures it supports).
(2) Add a callAsync primitive.
The callAsync primitive can be used to install a return value handler that will
run as soon as the RPC function's return value is sent back from the remote.
(3) Launch policies for RPC function handlers.
The new addHandler method, which installs handlers for RPC functions, takes two
arguments: (1) the handler itself, and (2) an optional "launch policy". When the
RPC function is called, the launch policy (if present) is invoked to actually
launch the handler. This allows the handler to be spawned on a background
thread, or added to a work list. If no launch policy is used, the handler is run
on the server thread itself. This should only be used for short-running
handlers, or entirely synchronous RPC APIs.
(4) Zero cost cross type serialization.
You can now define serialization from any type to a different "wire" type. For
example, this allows you to call an RPC function that's defined to take a
std::string while passing a StringRef argument. If a serializer from StringRef
to std::string has been defined for the channel type this will be used to
serialize the argument without having to construct a std::string instance.
This allows buffer reference types to be used as arguments to RPC calls without
requiring a copy of the buffer to be made.
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class.
SerializationTraits provides serialize and deserialize methods corresponding to
the earlier functions, but also provides a name for the type. In future, this
name will be used to render function signatures as strings, which will in turn
be used to negotiate and verify API support between RPC clients and servers.
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