Distributed RPC framework implemented by the Pulsar client #8
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Motivation
As we known,Pulsar's current asynchronous publish-subscribe model serves well for decoupled message distribution, but it lacks a native mechanism for handling synchronous interactions typical of Remote Procedure Calls (RPC).
This request-reply model can greatly enhance the utility of Pulsar. We can then use Pulsar as a distributed RPC Framework. This also improves the fault tolerance of RPC calls.
PIP-371 is also committed to building such a model.
apache/pulsar#23143
apache/pulsar#23194
But we need to implement this distributed RPC framework in a way that does not intrude into the pulsar core library. Therefore, we need to use two topics, one is the request topic and the other is the reply topic. The client side sends RPC requests to the request topic, the server side receives request message and performs customized processing, and finally sends them to the reply topic. The client receives the reply message and returns.
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