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tipsy

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This is a fork of parity-tokio-ipc.

tipsy is a library for cross-platform async IPC using Tokio. It utilizes unix sockets on UNIX (via tokio::net::UnixStream) and named pipes on windows (via tokio::net::windows::named_pipe).

Server

use futures_util::stream::StreamExt;
use std::error::Error;
use tipsy::{Endpoint, OnConflict, ServerId};

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> {
    Endpoint::new(ServerId::new("my-server"), OnConflict::Overwrite)?
        .incoming()?
        .for_each(|conn| async {
            match conn {
                Ok(stream) => println!("Got connection!"),
                Err(e) => eprintln!("Error when receiving connection: {:?}", e),
            }
        });
    Ok(())
}

Client

use std::error::Error;
use tipsy::{Endpoint, ServerId};
use tokio::io::AsyncWriteExt;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> {
    let mut client = Endpoint::connect(ServerId::new("my-server")).await?;
    client.write_all(b"ping").await?;
    Ok(())
}

Examples

See examples.

Supported Rust Versions

The MSRV is currently 1.85.0. Since Cargo's V3 resolver supports MSRV-aware dependencies, we do not treat an MSRV bump as a breaking change.

Dependencies

~7–21MB
~165K SLoC