radical-rpc 0.1.6

About

Radical is a RPC library that allows you to have cross-service communication out of the box.

It can serve as a replacement for Celery.

Radical has out-of-the-box integration with Django and also supports asyncio, but can be used without it.

Radical is easily extensible with custom transports and serializers.

Available transports:

• Redis

• Postgres

Default and recommended transport is Redis.

Available serializers:

• JSON

• Pickle

Default and recommended serializer is Pickle.

Glossary

Installing

pip install radical-rpc

Using with Django

1. Add Radical to INSTALLED_APPS:

   INSTALLED_APPS = [
       # ...
       'radical',
       # ...
   ]

2. Configure Radical:

   RADICAL_CONFIG = {
       'TRANSPORT_URL': 'redis://redis:6379/0?request_timeout=10',
       'QUEUE_NAME': 'myapp',
       'MODULES': [
           'radical.demo'
       ]
   }

3. Call it anywhere:

   from radical.contrib.django import call_wait, call
   from django.http import JsonResponse
   
   def some_view(request):
       # Call remote method and wait for it to return result.
       result = call_wait('myapp', 'radical.demo.add', 1300, 37)
       return JsonResponse(dict(result=result))  # Returns {'result': 1337}
   
   def some_view(request):
       # Call remote method and do not wait for it to finish.
       call('myapp', 'radical.demo.add', 1300, 37)
       return JsonResponse(dict(result='Job was scheduled.'))

4. Start Radical worker:

   ./manage.py radical