JackPlug

ZMQ based microservice communications library

Two transports are supported: ipc (though IPCEndpoint, using the following path as default: /tmp/jack.plug), and tcp (TCPEndpoint, using 3559 as the default port number).

Requirements

• pyzmq >= 19.0.2

Development requirements:

• python 3.8
• pyenv 1.2.20 (optional)

Installation instructions for development:

• Install pyenv (optional):

  • macos:

      $ brew install pyenv
    

  • linux:

    • Install pyenv from your package manager, or follow these instructions

• Create a new python virtualenv (optional):

    $ pyenv install 3.8.5
    $ pyenv virtualenv 3.8.5 jackplug
    $ pyenv activate jackplug
  

• Install python requirements:

    $ pip install -r requirements.txt
  

Examples

An example of the use of this library can be found on the examples folder, and running them is pretty straightforward:

Run examples/jack.py and examples/plug.py, in different terminals. You should set the same transport argument on both of them (ipc or tcp).

$ python examples/jack.py ipc

$ python examples/plug.py ipc