Command Line Interface

Rsocket requests can be sent using the command line interface. It is available when installing with pip using the [cli] extra.

The command is rsocket-py. The output of rsocket-py --help is as follows:

Usage: rsocket-py [OPTIONS] [URI]

  Supported connection strings: tcp/ws/wss

Options:
  --im, --interactionModel [REQUEST_RESPONSE|REQUEST_STREAM|REQUEST_CHANNEL|FIRE_AND_FORGET|METADATA_PUSH]
                                  Interaction Model
  --request                       Request response
  --stream                        Request stream
  --channel                       Request channel
  --fnf                           Fire and Forget
  --metadataPush                  Metadata Push
  -d, --data, --input TEXT        Data. Use "-" to read data from standard
                                  input. (default: )
  -l, --load TEXT                 Load a file as Data. (e.g. ./foo.txt,
                                  /tmp/foo.txt)
  -m, --metadata TEXT             Metadata (default: )
  -r, --route TEXT                Enable Routing Metadata Extension
  --limitRate INTEGER             Enable limitRate(rate)
  --take INTEGER                  Enable take(n)
  -u, --as, --authSimple TEXT     Enable Authentication Metadata Extension
                                  (Simple). The format must be "username:
                                  password"
  --sd, --setup, --setupData TEXT
                                  Data for Setup payload
  --sm, --setupMetadata TEXT      Metadata for Setup payload
  --ab, --authBearer TEXT         Enable Authentication Metadata Extension
                                  (Bearer)
  --dataMimeType, --dataFormat, --dmt TEXT
                                  MimeType for data (default:
                                  application/json)
  --metadataMimeType, --metadataFormat, --mmt TEXT
                                  MimeType for metadata
                                  (default:application/json)
  --allowUntrustedSsl             Do not verify SSL certificate (for wss://
                                  urls)
  -H, --header, --httpHeader TEXT
                                  ws/wss headers
  --trustCert TEXT                PEM file for a trusted certificate. (e.g.
                                  ./foo.crt, /tmp/foo.crt)
  --debug                         Show debug log
  -q, --quiet                     Disable the output on next
  --timeout INTEGER               Timeout in seconds
  --version                       Print version
  --help                          Show this message and exit.

Example usage

The following example can be run against the example server from the rsocket-py codebase at examples/server_with_routing.py. Run that script with --help to show options. By default, it will start a TCP server on port 6565.

Request-Response to TCP server on localhost:6565 with route 'single_request':

rsocket-py --route single_request --data "simple request" --request tcp://localhost:6565

For the following example, start the server_with_routing.py server with the following flags:

python3 ./examples/server_with_routing.py --transport wss --with-ssl

Request-Stream to WSS server on localhost:6565 with route 'stream', without verifying ssl, and with user/password authentication:

rsocket-py --authSimple abcde:12345 --route stream --allowUntrustedSsl --stream wss://localhost:6565

Example usage​

Example usage