Anyd

Anyd is a small framework that will help you build and use any custom Unix daemon process as a server. It will suite your daemon with API accessible over sockets, so you can query it for running your code remotely or transmit the data. Anyd provides you a client out-of-the-box, so you can start working with your daemon instantly.

How-to

Anyd provides you an app to start with:

from anyd import Appd

Define the address for your daemon, for example:

address = ("localhost", 3000)

The daemon process will use it to accept connections. Next, create a daemon app:

appd = Appd(address)

Or you can set it up with authentication for client:

appd = Appd(address, authkey=b"swordfish")

Now, define your daemon's API endpoints, using @appd.api:

@appd.api
def echo(arg: str) -> str:
    return arg

Additionally, you can use built-in logger:

from anyd import logging

@appd.api
def echo(arg: str) -> str:
    logging.info(f"echoing: {arg}")
    return arg

This function is now exposed to the client as daemon's API endpoint. It can be called remotley from the client.

You are ready to start the deamon:

appd.start()

This will block the interpreter and you'll see the logging output of your daemon in the terminal:

[INFO] Listening on 127.0.0.1:3000

Let's test it from another shell!

Start from importing ClientSession:

from anyd import ClientSession

Use it with address and authkey you used for your daemon:

address = ('localhost', 3000)

with ClientSession(address, authkey=b"swordfish") as client:
    # you can pass keyword arguments to API request
    response = client.commit("echo", arg="hello world!")
    # or the positional ones
    bob = client.commit("echo", "hello Bob")
    # you can query different API endpoints per-session
    try:
        # Will raise NotImplementedError:
        # we didn't defined 'my_func' endpoint on the daemon.
        # The daemon will continue working.
        client.commit("my_func", "hello") 
    except NotImplementedError as ex:
        print(ex) # NotImplementedError: my_func

print(response) # hello world!
print(bob) # hello Bob

Validators

On the daemon app you may want to define sort of validation logic for some of your endpoints. In this case, you can return an exception as a response to the client. It will be pickled and raised on the client side, so your daemon will stay up and running. Consider simple example with previous endpoit:

def validate_echo(arg: Any):
    if not isinstance(arg, str):
        return TypeError(f"{arg}, {type(arg)}")
    return arg

@appd.api
def echo(arg: str) -> str:
    return validate_echo(arg)

The function validate_echo is not an API endpoint of our daemon, but still its accessible for the daemon to execute it locally.

Now, let's try to query it with wrong data:

with ClientSession(address) as client:
    try:
        client.commit("echo", 1) # will raise TypeError
    except TypeError as ex:
        print(ex) # 1, <class 'int'>

Features

• Get to your server's functionality implementation instantly
• Don't bother with a low-level sockets programming
• The client for your server comes out of the box and is ready to use

Installation

Install it by running:

pip install anyd

Contribute

• Issue Tracker: github.com/anatolio-deb/anyd/issues
• Source Code: github.com/anatolio-deb/anyd

License

The project is licensed under the BSD license.