Time service

Sources at http://sebulbasvn.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/rpyc/demos/time/

The time service is a very basic example of RPyC services: it allows clients to query the server for the current time.

Service

import time
import rpyc
 
class TimeService(rpyc.Service):
    def exposed_gettime(self):
        return time.time()

Server

from rpyc.utils.server import ThreadedServer
 
s = ThreadedServer(TimeService)
s.start()

Client

import rpyc
 
c = rpyc.connect_by_service("TIME")
print "server's time is", c.root.gettime()

Note: the client requires the registry server be running somewhere on your local network (or anywhere else we can broadcast to). The registry server, like DNS, resolves a service name ("TIME" in this case) into an endpoint (host and port) we can establish a connection to.