# README
Nano 
Nano is an easy to use, fast, lightweight game server networking library for Go. It provides a core network architecture and a series of tools and libraries that can help developers eliminate boring duplicate work for common underlying logic. The goal of nano is to improve development efficiency by eliminating the need to spend time on repetitious network related programming.
Nano was designed for server-side applications like real-time games, social games, mobile games, etc of all sizes.
How to build a system with Nano
What does a Nano application look like?
The simplest "nano" application as shown in the following figure, you can make powerful applications by combining different components.
In fact, the nano application is a collection of Component , and a component is a bundle of Handler, once you register a component to nano, nano will register all methods that can be converted to Handler to nano service container. Service was accessed by Component.Handler, and the handler will be called while client request. The handler will receive two parameters while handling a message:
*session.Session: corresponding a client that apply this request or notify.*protocol.FooBar: the payload of the request.
While you had processed your logic, you can response or push message to the client by session.Response(payload) and session.Push('eventName', payload), or returns error when some unexpected data received.
How to build distributed system with Nano
Nano has no built-in distributed system components, but you can easily implement it with gRPC and smux . Here we take grpc as an example.
- First of all, you need to define a remote component
type RemoteComponent struct {
rpcClients []*grpc.ClientConn
}
- Second, fetch all grpc servers infomation from services like
etcdorconsulinnanolifetime hooks
type ServerInfo struct {
Host string `json:"host"`
Port int `json:"port"`
}
// lifetime callback
func (r *RemoteComponent) Init() {
// fetch server list from etcd
resp, err := http.Get("http://your_etcd_server/backend/server_list/area/10023")
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
servers := []ServerInfo{}
if err := json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&servers); err != nil {
panic(err)
}
for i := range servers {
server := servers[i]
client, err := grpc.Dial(fmt.Sprintf("%s:%d", server.Host, server.Post), options)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
r.rpcClients = append(r.rpcClients, client)
}
}
func (r *RemoteComponent) client(s *session.Session) *grpc.ClientConn {
// load balance
return r.rpcClients[s.UID() % len(s.rpcClients)]
}
// Your handler, accessed by:
// nanoClient.Request("RemoteComponent.DemoHandler", &pb.DemoMsg{/*...*/})
func (r *RemoteComponent) DemoHandler(s *session.Session, msg *pb.DemoMsg) error {
client := r.client(s)
// do something with client
// ....
// ...
return nil
}
The Nano will remain simple, but you can perform any operations in the component and get the desired goals. You can startup a group of Nano application as agent to dispatch message to backend servers.
How to execute the asynchronous task
func (manager *PlayerManager) Login(s *session.Session, msg *ReqPlayerLogin) error {
var onDBResult = func(player *Player) {
manager.players = append(manager.players, player)
s.Push("PlayerSystem.LoginSuccess", &ResPlayerLogin)
}
// run slow task in new gorontine
go func() {
player, err := db.QueryPlayer(msg.PlayerId) // ignore error in demo
// handle result in main logical gorontine
nano.Invoke(func(){ onDBResult(player) })
}
return nil
}
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Go version
> go1.8
Installation
go get github.com/lonnng/nano
# dependencies
go get -u github.com/golang/protobuf
go get -u github.com/gorilla/websocket
Benchmark
# Case: PingPong
# OS: Windows 10
# Device: i5-6500 3.2GHz 4 Core/1000-Concurrent => IOPS 11W(Average)
# Other: ...
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/lonnng/nano/benchmark/io
go test -v -tags "benchmark"