Flit - Twirp RPC Generator Framework

This project is a generator for the Twitch TV Twirp RPC framework.

It supports the generation of Java based servers with the following flavours supported:

• Spring Boot/Spring MVC
• Undertow

Building & Running

Requirements

The build has been tested with Oracle's JDK (version 1.8)

The build uses gradle to generate the artifacts. No installation is required as the project uses the gradle wrapper setup.

For testing you will need an installation of the protocol buffers compiler.

Modules

The project is split into the following modules:

Module	Description
plugin	The protoc plugin
runtime:core	Core functionality required by generated code
runtime:spring	Runtime library for Spring MVC/Boot servers
runtime:undertow	Runtime library for Undertow servers

Build

To build the various components, run the following:

git clone git@github.com:devork/flit.git
cd flit
./gradlew clean build pack

Installation

Currently, the run script only supports *nix but the run script should be fairly easy to migrate to windows.

After building:

cp plugin/build/package/flit-plugin.zip /usr/local/bin
cd /usr/local/bin
unzip flit-plugin.zip
chmod +x protoc-gen-flit

Running

The plugin is executed as part of a protoc compilation step:

protoc \
    --proto_path=. \
    --java_out=../java \
    --flit_out=target=server,type=undertow:../java \
    ./haberdasher.proto

Options

The flit plugin accepts the following plugin parameters:

Name	Required	Type	Description
target	Y	enum[server]	The type of target to generate e.g. server, client etc
type	Y	enum[spring,undertow,boot]	Type of target to generate
context	N	string	Base context for routing, default is /twirp

Development

All development is done in Java using JDK 8 (as mentioned above).

Remote debugging can be performed as follows:

export FLIT_JAVA_OPTS="-agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=y,address=5005,quiet=y"
protoc \
        --proto_path=. \
        --java_out=../java \
        --flit_out=target=server,type=undertow:../java \
        ./haberdasher.proto

When running with the above options, the generator will enable a remote java debug session on port 5005. This is useful for debugging a full generation step.

Test Fixture Generation

The test resources contains a fake plugin that simply dumps the binary request to a file called file.bin. This utility can be used to generate test fixtures which can be fed to tests to drive plugin generation, for example:

$ protoc \
    --plugin=${PWD}/protoc-gen-dump \
    --dump_out=target=server,type=undertow:../java  \
    ./helloworld.proto
$ mv file.bin helloworld.bin

This can be run from the resources directory to generate a CodeGeneratorRequest protobuf file, which can then be read by tests:

PluginProtos.CodeGeneratorRequest request = null;
try (InputStream is = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("helloworld.bin").openStream()) {
    request = PluginProtos.CodeGeneratorRequest
        .newBuilder()
        .mergeFrom(is)
        .build();
}

Plugin plugin = new Plugin(request);
plugin.process();

Guides

Platform	Document
Undertow	undertow.md