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gnet

中文说明

High performance network library,especially for game servers

Features

• MultiThread, nonblocking
• Default support protobuf
• Optimize receiving and dispatching using lockless RingBuffer, which can improve performance by 5x for some cases
• Easy to implement custom encoding and decoding
• rpc
• Support Tcp,WebSocket(ws and wss)

Usage

run a server

codec := gnet.NewProtoCodec(nil)
handler := gnet.NewDefaultConnectionHandler(codec)
handler.Register(gnet.PacketCommand(pb.CmdTest_Cmd_TestMessage), onTestMessage, new(pb.TestMessage))
listenerConfig := &gnet.ListenerConfig{
    AcceptConfig: gnet.DefaultConnectionConfig,
}
listenerConfig.AcceptConfig.Codec = codec
listenerConfig.AcceptConfig.Handler = handler
gnet.GetNetMgr().NewListener(ctx, "localhost:10001", listenerConfig)

run a client

codec := gnet.NewProtoCodec(nil)
handler := gnet.NewDefaultConnectionHandler(codec)
handler.Register(gnet.PacketCommand(pb.CmdTest_Cmd_TestMessage), onTestMessage, new(pb.TestMessage))
connectionConfig := gnet.DefaultConnectionConfig
connectionConfig.Codec = clientCodec
connectionConfig.Handler = clientHandler
connector := gnet.GetNetMgr().NewConnector(ctx, "localhost:10001", &connectionConfig, nil)
connector.SendPacket(gnet.NewProtoPacket(gnet.PacketCommand(pb.CmdTest_Cmd_TestMessage),
    &pb.TestMessage{
        Name: "hello",
    }))

Encoding and decoding(https://github.com/fish-tennis/gnet/blob/main/codec.go)

gnet divide TCP stream based decoding into three layers

Layer1:subcontracting stream, format:|Length|Data|,after receiving full packet content, hand it over to the next layer for processing

Layer2:Decoding the data from Layer1,such as decryption,decompression,etc

Layer3:protobuf deserialize,generate proto.Message

Use RingBuffer to increase performance

rpc

Rpc send a request to target and block wait reply,similar to grpc-go,but gnet use command id instead of method name

request := gnet.NewProtoPacket(cmd, &pb.HelloRequest{
    Name: "hello",
})
reply := new(pb.HelloReply)
err := connection.Rpc(request, reply)
if err != nil {
    return
}
logger.Info("reply:%v", reply)

goroutine

Examples

example/helloworld: a simple example use protobuf message

example/data_packet: a simple example use DataPacket

example/custom_packet: how to extend custom packet struct

example/tcp_connection_simple: use protobuf message without RingBuffer

example/packet_size: send big packet which size is bigger than RingBuffer's cap

example/websocket: a simple example use websocket

example/rpc: how to use rpc

example/simulate_game: a performance test with a game application scenario

Client Connector Library

C#: gnet_csharp

Project

game db&cache framework

distributed game server framework

gnet is also used in our commercial online game projects