gearman-rpc.md

Please note, this is just notes that I've written to myself. They describe a hypothetical library built on top of Abraxas. Not something bundled.

Gearman is a schemaless job server, with realtime and durable background job execution.

Create a library that provides a highlevel gearman client connection:

var worker = new GearmanWorker();
worker.register('mail', {
    'send': function (from,to,subject,body) { ...; return msgid; },
    'recv': function (to) { ...; return [ {msg1}, {msg2} ... ]; },
});

Registers two jobs, mail.send and mail.recv with the server. Arguments are automatically decoded and results encoded. Results can also be promises that resolve into results.

var client = new GearmanClient();

client.mail.send('alice@company.com','bob@company.com','Testing','This is our test').then(function (msgid) {
    ...
});
client.mail.recv('alice@company.com').then(function(mail) {
    ...
});

The client would proxy any attributes accessed as data into more proxy objects. Ultimately calling one as a function would submit the job.

Encoding would be jsoni or something similar to it, that can actually serialize JS types.