No bullshit JSON-RPC client for Rust

Features

• No boilerplate: Driven by proc-macros
• No client lock-in: Complete freedom over underlying HTTP client
• Lightweight: Only depends on syn and serde
• Async-ready

How does it work?

We take a trait as input to a proc-macro and output another one that has default implementations for all the functions. This allows us to take away all the boilerplate of making JSON-RPC calls and you get to define a nice interface at the same time!

How do I use it?

1. Depend on jsonrpc_client:

   [dependencies]
   jsonrpc_client = { version = "*", features = ["reqwest"] }
   

2. Define a trait that describes the JSON-RPC API you want to talk to and annotate it with #[jsonrpc_client::api]:

   #[jsonrpc_client::api]
   pub trait Math {
       async fn subtract(&self, subtrahend: i64, minuend: i64) -> i64;
   }
   

3. Define your client:

   #[jsonrpc_client::implement(Math)]
   struct Client {
       inner: reqwest::Client,
       base_url: reqwest::Url,
   }
   

4. Start using your client!

Backends

Currently, the client supports several backends, all of them can be activated via a separate feature-flag:

• reqwest
• surf
• isahc

Support for more backends is welcomed.

Unfortunately, not all can be supported. In particular:

• hreq: Cannot be supported because their Agent takes &mut self for sending a request which doesn't work with the SendRequest trait.
• awc: Cannot be supported because their Client does not implement Send.