venom 1.0.0a1

Venom is an upcoming RPC framework for Python

Venom is an upcoming RPC framework for Python.

So far, Venom RPC supports unary requests & responses that are defined as methods on services. The framework is designed to support different server implementations. The first implementation is a HTTP/1 protocol implementation using “aiohttp”.

Installation

Venom RPC alpha requires Python 3.5. The final version will likely require Python 3.6.

To install Venom using ‘pip’, enter:

pip install venom==1.0.0a1

Road map

A list of major features required for the first release:

• Schema validation

• Documentation

An unordered list of potential future features:

• Streaming requests & responses with ZMQ

• Unary HTTP/1 implementation with “flask”

• WebSocket implementation with “aiohttp”

  This would be the only solution that fully supports streaming and can be used in the browser today.

• gRPC (HTTP/2) implementation with e.g. “hyper-h2”

  There’s already an experimental gRPC implentation based on “grpcio”, but without true support for asynchronous calls because that is not supported by the official Python library.

• MsgPack serialization support

• Protocol Buffer support

• JSON Hyper-Schema service

• OpenAPI (Swagger) schema service

• Client generation from schema

Streamed responses would use Python 3.6 coroutine generators