Synapse is a simple Python module that provides a communication interface through nodes. It abstracts the underlying protocol. The configuration stores protocol specific data and a node is instanciated with the node.makeNode() factory.
The node is the unit of communication. Actor is built on top of Node to provide a distributed communication interface. When an actor joins the network it announces itself to a announce service. The announce is stored in the remote service and broadcast to all other nodes by a pub/sub queue.
Currently it supports Zeromq as the underlying protocol and JSON-RPC to encode and decode messages.
Read doc/quickstart for a practical introduction. As documentation in doc/ is
in Sphinx format, type make in the directory to see how to build it in HTML
or PDF.
launch all the tests:
$ python setup.py test
Test a specific feature:
Message
$ python setup.py test -s synapse.tests.test_message
All Node features
$ python setup.py test -s synapse.tests.test_node
Node implementations
$ python setup.py test -s synapse.tests.test_redisnode $ python setup.py test -s synapse.tests.test_zmqnode
$ python setup.py nosetests