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# Go Micro [![License](https://img.shields.io/:license-apache-blue.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0) [![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/micro/go-micro?status.svg)](https://godoc.org/github.com/micro/go-micro) [![Travis CI](https://api.travis-ci.org/micro/go-micro.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/micro/go-micro) [![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/micro/go-micro)](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/micro/go-micro)
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Go Micro is a pluggable RPC framework for distributed systems development.
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The **Micro** philosophy is sane defaults with a pluggable architecture. We provide defaults to get you started quickly but everything can be easily swapped out. It comes with built in support for {json,proto}-rpc encoding, consul or multicast dns for service discovery, http for communication and random hashed client side load balancing.
Everything in go-micro is **pluggable** . You can find and contribute to plugins at [github.com/micro/go-plugins ](https://github.com/micro/go-plugins ).
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Follow us on [Twitter ](https://twitter.com/microhq ) or join the [Slack ](http://slack.micro.mu/ ) community.
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## Features
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Go Micro abstracts away the details of distributed systems. Here are the main features.
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- **Service Discovery** - Automatic registration and name resolution with service discovery
- **Load Balancing** - Smart client side load balancing of services built on discovery
- **Synchronous Comms** - RPC based communication with support for bidirectional streaming
- **Asynchronous Comms** - PubSub interface built in for event driven architectures
- **Message Encoding** - Dynamic encoding based on content-type with protobuf and json out of the box
- **Service Interface** - All features are packaged in a simple high level interface for developing microservices
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Go Micro supports both the Service and Function programming models. Read on to learn more.
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## Docs
For more detailed information on the architecture, installation and use of go-micro checkout the [docs ](https://micro.mu/docs ).
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## Learn By Example
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An example service can be found in [**examples/service** ](https://github.com/micro/examples/tree/master/service ) and function in [**examples/function** ](https://github.com/micro/examples/tree/master/function ).
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The [**examples** ](https://github.com/micro/examples ) directory contains examples for using things such as middleware/wrappers, selector filters, pub/sub, grpc, plugins and much more. For the complete greeter example look at [**examples/greeter** ](https://github.com/micro/examples/tree/master/greeter ). Other examples can be found throughout the GitHub repository.
Watch the [Golang UK Conf 2016 ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xspaDovwk34 ) video for a high level overview.
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## Getting started
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- [Service Discovery ](#service-discovery )
- [Writing a Service ](#writing-a-service )
- [Writing a Function ](#writing-a-function )
- [Plugins ](#plugins )
- [Wrappers ](#wrappers )
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## Service Discovery
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Service discovery is used to resolve service names to addresses. It's the only dependency of go-micro.
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### Consul
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[Consul ](https://www.consul.io/ ) is used as the default service discovery system.
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Discovery is pluggable. Find plugins for etcd, kubernetes, zookeeper and more in the [micro/go-plugins ](https://github.com/micro/go-plugins ) repo.
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[Install guide ](https://www.consul.io/intro/getting-started/install.html )
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### Multicast DNS
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[Multicast DNS ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast_DNS ) is a built in service discovery plugin for a zero dependency configuration.
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Pass `--registry=mdns` to any command or the enviroment variable MICRO_REGISTRY=mdns
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```
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go run main.go --registry=mdns
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```
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## Writing a service
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This is a simple greeter RPC service example
Find this example at [examples/service ](https://github.com/micro/examples/tree/master/service ).
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### Create service proto
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One of the key requirements of microservices is strongly defined interfaces. Micro uses protobuf to achieve this.
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Here we define the Greeter handler with the method Hello. It takes a HelloRequest and HelloResponse both with one string arguments.
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```proto
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syntax = "proto3";
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service Greeter {
rpc Hello(HelloRequest) returns (HelloResponse) {}
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}
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message HelloRequest {
string name = 1;
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}
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message HelloResponse {
string greeting = 2;
}
```
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### Install protobuf
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Install [protobuf ](https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/ )
Now install the micro fork of protoc-gen-go. The protobuf compiler for Go.
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```shell
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go get github.com/micro/protobuf/{proto,protoc-gen-go}
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```
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### Generate the proto
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After writing the proto definition we must compile it using protoc with the micro plugin.
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```shell
protoc -I$GOPATH/src --go_out=plugins=micro:$GOPATH/src \
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$GOPATH/src/github.com/micro/examples/service/proto/greeter.proto
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```
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### Write the service
Below is the code for the greeter service.
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It does the following:
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1. Implements the interface defined for the Greeter handler
2. Initialises a micro.Service
3. Registers the Greeter handler
4. Runs the service
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```go
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package main
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import (
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"fmt"
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micro "github.com/micro/go-micro"
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proto "github.com/micro/examples/service/proto"
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"golang.org/x/net/context"
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)
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type Greeter struct{}
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func (g *Greeter) Hello(ctx context.Context, req *proto.HelloRequest, rsp *proto.HelloResponse) error {
rsp.Greeting = "Hello " + req.Name
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return nil
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}
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func main() {
// Create a new service. Optionally include some options here.
service := micro.NewService(
micro.Name("greeter"),
micro.Version("latest"),
)
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// Init will parse the command line flags.
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service.Init()
// Register handler
proto.RegisterGreeterHandler(service.Server(), new(Greeter))
// Run the server
if err := service.Run(); err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
}
}
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```
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### Run service
```
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go run examples/service/main.go
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```
Output
```
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2016/03/14 10:59:14 Listening on [::]:50137
2016/03/14 10:59:14 Broker Listening on [::]:50138
2016/03/14 10:59:14 Registering node: greeter-ca62b017-e9d3-11e5-9bbb-68a86d0d36b6
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```
### Define a client
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Below is the client code to query the greeter service.
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The generated proto includes a greeter client to reduce boilerplate code.
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```go
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package main
import (
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"fmt"
micro "github.com/micro/go-micro"
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proto "github.com/micro/examples/service/proto"
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"golang.org/x/net/context"
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)
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func main() {
// Create a new service. Optionally include some options here.
service := micro.NewService(micro.Name("greeter.client"))
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// Create new greeter client
greeter := proto.NewGreeterClient("greeter", service.Client())
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// Call the greeter
rsp, err := greeter.Hello(context.TODO(), & proto.HelloRequest{Name: "John"})
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
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}
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// Print response
fmt.Println(rsp.Greeting)
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}
```
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### Run the client
```shell
go run client.go
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```
Output
```
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Hello John
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```
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## Writing a Function
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Go Micro includes the Function programming model.
A Function is a one time executing Service which exits after completing a request.
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### Defining a Function
```go
package main
import (
proto "github.com/micro/examples/function/proto"
"github.com/micro/go-micro"
"golang.org/x/net/context"
)
type Greeter struct{}
func (g *Greeter) Hello(ctx context.Context, req *proto.HelloRequest, rsp *proto.HelloResponse) error {
rsp.Greeting = "Hello " + req.Name
return nil
}
func main() {
// create a new function
fnc := micro.NewFunction(
micro.Name("go.micro.fnc.greeter"),
)
// init the command line
fnc.Init()
// register a handler
fnc.Handle(new(Greeter))
// run the function
fnc.Run()
}
```
It's that simple.
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## Plugins
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By default go-micro only provides a few implementation of each interface at the core but it's completely pluggable. There's already dozens of plugins which are available at [github.com/micro/go-plugins ](https://github.com/micro/go-plugins ). Contributions are welcome!
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### Build with plugins
If you want to integrate plugins simply link them in a separate file and rebuild
Create a plugins.go file
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```go
import (
// etcd v3 registry
_ "github.com/micro/go-plugins/registry/etcdv3"
// nats transport
_ "github.com/micro/go-plugins/transport/nats"
// kafka broker
_ "github.com/micro/go-plugins/broker/kafka"
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)
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```
Build binary
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```shell
// For local use
go build -i -o service ./main.go ./plugins.go
```
Flag usage of plugins
```shell
service --registry=etcdv3 --transport=nats --broker=kafka
```
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## Wrappers
Go-micro includes the notion of middleware as wrappers. The client or handlers can be wrapped using the decorator pattern.
### Handler
Here's an example service handler wrapper which logs the incoming request
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```go
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// implements the server.HandlerWrapper
func logWrapper(fn server.HandlerFunc) server.HandlerFunc {
return func(ctx context.Context, req server.Request, rsp interface{}) error {
fmt.Printf("[%v] server request: %s", time.Now(), req.Method())
return fn(ctx, req, rsp)
}
}
```
It can be initialised when creating the service
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```go
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service := micro.NewService(
micro.Name("greeter"),
// wrap the handler
micro.WrapHandler(logWrapper),
)
```
### Client
Here's an example of a client wrapper which logs requests made
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```go
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type logWrapper struct {
client.Client
}
func (l *logWrapper) Call(ctx context.Context, req client.Request, rsp interface{}, opts ...client.CallOption) error {
fmt.Printf("[wrapper] client request to service: %s method: %s\n", req.Service(), req.Method())
return l.Client.Call(ctx, req, rsp)
}
// implements client.Wrapper as logWrapper
func logWrap(c client.Client) client.Client {
return & logWrapper{c}
}
```
It can be initialised when creating the service
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```go
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service := micro.NewService(
micro.Name("greeter"),
// wrap the client
micro.WrapClient(logWrap),
)
```
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## Other Languages
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Check out [ja-micro ](https://github.com/Sixt/ja-micro ) to write services in Java
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## Sponsors
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Open source development of Micro is sponsored by Sixt
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