chanstream
Package chanstream implements an API compatible with and similiar to the TCP connection (and net.Conn as well) API, on top of Go channels. This is in pure Go, without any external dependencies.
The intention is to facilitate the use of channels for intra-program communication, in a manner similiar to TCP or Unix Domain sockets, without creating any externally visible addresses or service points. (This can also be done more efficiently, since data need not be copied to the kernel.)
An observer might wonder why not just utilize Go channels directly? The rationale here is that this allows abstraction layers to be built on top of channels that can choose to use channels (via chanstream) or TCP or other transports. This can make it possible to eliminate certain special cases in program handling.
In particular, this package was developed to support an effort to produce a pure Go implementation of nanomsg and/or ZeroMQ. This package can be used as the underlying transport for the inproc: scheme.
Consider this a work-in-progress, and use at your own risk.
Installing
Using go get
$ go get github.com/gdamore/chanstream
After this command chanstream is ready to use. Its source will be in:
$GOROOT/src/pkg/github.com/gdamore/chanstream
You can use go get -u -a to update all installed packages.
Documentation
For docs, see http://godoc.org/github.com/gdamore/chanstream or run:
$ go doc github.com/gdamore/chanstream
Copyright 2015 Garrett D'Amore garrett@damore.org