gemstone 0.7.0

Build microservices with Python

The gemstone framework

An extensible and simplistic library for writing microservices in Python.

Core features:

• JSON RPC 2.0 communication (request-response)

• Event based communication (publisher-subscriber)

• autodiscovery

• dynamic configuration of the services

• possibility to add web application functionality

• API token based security

See the documentation for more info: documentation

Check out the issue tracker: issue tracker

Changes: Changelog

0.6.0 (14.02.2017)

• added configurable framework:

  • gemstone.config.configurable.Configurable class

  • gemstone.config.configurator.* classes

  • gemstone.MicroService.configurables and gemstone.MicroService.configurators attributes

  • switched testing to pytest

  • improved documentation (restructured and minor additions). Still a work in progress

0.5.0 (09.02.2017)

• added support for publisher-subscriber communication method:

  • base class for event transports: gemstone.event.transport.BaseEventTransport

  • first concrete implementation: gemstone.event.transport.RabbitMqEventTransport

  • gemstone.MicroService.emit_event for publishing an event

  • gemstone.event_handler decorator for designating event handlers

• restructured documentation (added tutorial, examples and howto sections).

• added asynchronous method calls in gemstone.RemoteService.

• added gemstone.as_completed, gemstone.first_completed, gemstone.make_callbacks utility functions for dealing with asynchronous method calls.

0.4.0 (25.01.2017)

• modified accessible_at attribute of the gemstone.MicroService class

• added the endpoint attribute to the gemstone.MicroService class

• improved how the microservice communicates with the service registry

0.3.1 (25.01.2017)

• fixed event loop freezing on Windows

• fixed a case when a TypeError was silenced when handling the bad parameters error in JSON RPC 2.0 handler (#21)

• major refactoring (handling of JSON RPC objects as Python objects instead of dicts and lists) to improve readability and maintainability

• improved documentation

0.3.0 (23.01.2017)

• added validation strategies (method for extraction of api token from the request)

• base subclass for implementing validation strategies

• built in validation strategies: HeaderValidationStrategy, BasicCookieStrategy

• improved documentation

0.2.0 (17.01.2017)

• added gemstone.RemoteService.get_service_by_name method

• added call command to cli

• added call_raw command to cli

• improved documentation a little

0.1.3 (16.01.2017)

• fixed manifest to include required missing files

0.1.2 (16.01.2017)

• added py36 to travis-ci

• refactored setup.py and reworked description files and documentation for better rendering

0.1.1 (13.01.2017)

• changed the name of the library from pymicroservice to gemstone

• added the gemstone.MicroService.accessible_at attribute

0.1.0 (09.01.2017)

• added the pymicroservice.PyMicroService.get_cli method

• improved documentation a little bit

0.0.4

• fixed bug when sending a notification that would result in an error was causing the microservice to respond abnormally (see #10)

• fixed a bug that was causing the service to never respond with the invalid parameters status when calling a method with invalid parameters

0.0.3

• added pymicroservice.RemoteService class

• added the pymicroservice.PyMicroService.get_service(name)

• improved documentation