Simple iroh rpc library

[dpc]

I keep needing the same thing in Iroh: ability for one side to call something (an rpc) on the other side, so I finally wrapped up something to replace the ad-hoc things I've been using:

https://github.com/dpc/iroh-dpc-rpc

BTW. Maybe Iroh should have something like that as one of the standard protocols? Sure blobs and gossip, are easy to use and useful, but being able to do a request and response with minimal amount of code seems even more basic primitive.

[ansarizafar]

@dpc Thanks for sharing your RPC library.

[matheus23]

BTW. Maybe Iroh should have something like that as one of the standard protocols? Sure blobs and gossip, are easy to use and useful, but being able to do a request and response with minimal amount of code seems even more basic primitive.

Yeeah. We built quic-rpc to do RPC over QUIC in the past. At some point someone contributed an iroh transport for that RPC library.
But quic-rpc does a bunch of things and is fairly abstract, which makes it hard to work with sometimes, so we've built another thing, irpc since then, which is simpler, and only supports iroh + memory transports.

Totally agree we should have simple libraries for this.

[dpc]

I got irpc pointed out recently by a college. I missed it. Looks somewhat similar in scope and function. You might want to just mention/link it up here and there and probably good enough.