ansar-connect 0.1.221

Tools and runtime for asynchronous programming

ansar-connect

The ansar-connect library implements sophisticated asynchronous network messaging. It builds on the features of the ansar-encode <https://pypi.org/project/ansar-encode>_ and ansar-create <https://pypi.org/project/ansar-create>_ libraries to integrate network messaging into the asynchronous model of execution. The result of this approach is that sending a message across a network is no different to sending a message between any two async objects. There is also complete "portability" of messages - an application data object read from the disk using ansar.encode can immediately be sent across a network, with zero additional effort.

This essential messaging capability is combined with the multi-process capabilities of ansar.create, to deliver practical, distributed computing. Designs for software solutions can now consider;

• multi-process compositions that run on a host,
• compositions of processes distributed across a LAN,
• and compositions where processes may be anywhere on the Internet.

Smaller projects will use this library to deliver multi-process solutions on a single host. The library will arrange for all the network messaging that binds the processes together, into a single operational unit.

The most ambitious projects will involve processes spread across the Internet, e.g. between desktop PCs at different branches of an organization, or between head-office servers and mobile personnel on laptops, or between those same servers and SBCs operating as weather stations. As long as there is a reasonably up-to-date Python runtime (>=3.10) and Internet connectivity, this library will arrange for full, asynchronous messaging between any 2 members of a composition.

Features

• Implements full-duplex, network messaging over asynchronous sockets.
• Inherits the complete type-sophistication of ansar.encode.
• Seamlessly extends the async model of operation to span local and wide-area networks.