compas.rpc

COMPAS runs in many different environments, but in some environments the availablity of libraries is limited. For example, when running COMPAS in an IronPython-based environment like Rhino/Grasshopper, plenty of CPython libraries such as numpy and scipy are not available. To workaround this limitation, COMPAS provides a mechanisms to access the functionality of a CPython environment seemlessly from any other Python environment through a “Remote Procedure Call” or RPC. Through RPC, COMPAS can be used as a server for remote clients, and as a client for remote servers. A typical use case is to run algorithms that require packages like numpy or scipy on a remote server, when working in Rhino. Or to use COMPAS in a browser application.

Classes

Dispatcher	Base class for remote services.
Proxy	Create a proxy object as intermediary between client code and remote functionality.
RPCClientError	Exception for errors originating from the client.
RPCServerError	Exception for errors originating from the server.
Server	Version of a SimpleXMLRPCServer that can be cleanly terminated from the client side.