chaubold/microRockPaperScissors

playing with microservices using flask and redis

Rock-Paper-Scissors using Flask microservices

Used to understand the concepts and have some fun :)

Installing required packages (with conda)

This is Python 3 only!

• Flask: pip install flask
• Autodoc (will probably replaced in the future): pip install Flask-Autodoc
• Requests: conda install requests
• Redis-py: conda install redis-py
• qt5 and pyqt for the viewer: conda install pyqt==5.6.0

You also need to run a redis server on the default port which is used to communicate the results. Install docker and run the latest redis in a linux container as follows:

docker run -d -p 6379:6379 --name redis bitnami/redis:latest

Where the parameters mean:

• -d = run as daemon
• -p port:port = forward this specific port from the container to localhost (6379 is redis default)
• --name = provide a name for the container that can be used with start/stop,...

Running server and playing matches

Start server and two players (client-random, client-biased and client-learning are available):

# best in seperate terminals, or put an "&" at the end of every line
python gameserver/gameserver.py -p 9876
python client-random/client.py -p 6789
python client-random/client.py -p 6790

To see the API any of the clients offer, navigate your webbrowser to localhost:port/doc.

Tell the server which players are playing:

curl -i -d '{"player":"joe", "ip":"0.0.0.0:6789"}' localhost:9876/player/add
curl -i -d '{"player":"paul", "ip":"0.0.0.0:6790"}' localhost:9876/player/add

Play 100 matches:

curl -i localhost:9876/result/100

Or fire up a viewer that will talk to the gameserver and connect the players:

python viewer.py --game-server-ip 0.0.0.0:9876 --player1-name joe --player1-ip 0.0.0.0:6789 --player2-name paul --player2-ip 0.0.0.0:6790