⚠️ This is a WIP Active development project: Experiment with it, but it is Not production ready!

Eclipse Zenoh Typescript / Javascript API

The Eclipse Zenoh: Zero Overhead Pub/sub, Store/Query, and Compute.

Zenoh (pronounced /zeno/) unifies data in motion, data at rest, and computations. It carefully blends traditional pub/sub with geo-distributed storage, queries, and computations, while retaining a level of time and space efficiency that is well beyond any of the mainstream stacks.

Check the website zenoh.io and the roadmap for more detailed information.

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Typescript/Javascript API

This repository provides a Typescript / Javascript binding through the use of the remote-api-plugin in this repo. The long-term plan is to use zenoh Zenoh written in Rust to target WASM. In its current state, it is not possible to compile Zenoh (Rust) to target WASM, and it will need to undergo a fair amount of refactoring before that can happen.

Docs can be accessed at Docs Link

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How to build and run it

⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ : Zenoh and its ecosystem are under active development. When you build from git, make sure you also build from git any other Zenoh repository you plan to use (e.g. binding, plugin, backend, etc.). It may happen that some changes in git are not compatible with the most recent packaged Zenoh release (e.g. deb, docker, pip). We put particular effort into maintaining compatibility between the various git repositories in the Zenoh project.

Executing the zenohd with zenoh-plugin-remote-api plugin

The zenohd router and its plugins should be built with the same Zenoh sources, the same version of the Rust compiler, and with the same set of features. This requirement exists because the router and plugins share common Rust structures, and Rust doesn't guarantee ABI compatibility of the memory representation of these structures.

Therefore one of the methods below is recommended to ensure that plugin and router are compatible.

The file EXAMPLE_CONFIG.json5 references the zenoh-plugin-remote-api\EXAMPLE_CONFIG.json5 with minimal necessary set of options to run the plugin. See also full set of available options, like ssl certificate settings in zenoh-plugin-remote-api\config.json5.

1. Install the latest release of zenohd and zenoh-plugin-remote-api

   Ubuntu:

   echo "deb [trusted=yes] https://download.eclipse.org/zenoh/debian-repo/ /" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/zenoh.list > /dev/null
   sudo apt update
   sudo apt install zenohd
   sudo apt install zenoh-plugin-remote-api

   Mac-OS:

   brew tap eclipse-zenoh/homebrew-zenoh
   brew install zenoh
   brew install zenoh-plugin-remote-api

   Run the installed zenoh router with example config

   zenohd --config EXAMPLE_CONFIG.json5

   Expected output should be something similar to:

   zenohd: zenohd v1.0.3 built with rustc 1.75.0 (82e1608df 2023-12-21)
   zenoh::net::runtime: Using ZID: f7bc54e0941036422ec08ebac6fbdb40
   zenoh::api::loader: Loading  plugin "remote_api"
   zenoh::api::loader: Starting  plugin "remote_api"
   zenoh::api::loader: Successfully started plugin remote_api from "/usr/lib/libzenoh_plugin_remote_api.so"
   zenoh::api::loader: Finished loading plugins
   zenoh::net::runtime::orchestrator: Zenoh can be reached at: tcp/....

2. Build both the plugin and the router from the sources:

   Build the plugin zenoh-plugin-remote-api

   cargo build 

   Build and run the zenohd from the same sources which were used for the plugin. The zenohd dependency is specified in the [workspace.metadata.bin] section in Cargo.toml which is processed by the 3rd party tool cargo-run-bin.

   cargo install cargo-run-bin
   cargo bin zenohd --config EXAMPLE_CONFIG.json5

   Expected output should be something similar to:

   zenohd: zenohd vc764bf9b built with rustc 1.75.0 (82e1608df 2023-12-21)
   zenoh::net::runtime: Using ZID: bb3fb16628f57e92f92accf2f5c81511
   zenoh::api::loader: Loading  plugin "remote_api"
   zenoh::api::loader: Starting  plugin "remote_api"
   zenoh::api::loader: Successfully started plugin remote_api from "./target/debug\\zenoh_plugin_remote_api.dll"
   zenoh::api::loader: Finished loading plugins
   zenoh::net::runtime::orchestrator: Zenoh can be reached at: tcp/...

Building the library

1. Make sure that the following utilities are available on your platform.

• NPM
• yarn
• Typescript

2. Navigate to the directory zenoh-ts

3. Run the commands:

   yarn install 
   yarn run build

Build and run the command line examples

This library is currently compatible with browsers, but not with NodeJS due to websocket library limitations. To run the command line examples use the javascript runtime deno which is expected to be consistent with the browser.

1. Install deno
2. Navigate to the zenoh-ts/examples/deno directory
3. Install the zenoh-ts library by running yarn install
4. Run zenohd with the remote_api plugin, configured to websocket port 10000, as described above
5. Run the examples by running yarn example <PATH TO EXAMPLE>, i.e. yarn example src/z_sub.ts

To run publisher and subscriber examples:

yarn example src/z_pub.rs

yarn example src/z_sub.rs

The subscriber should start to receive messages from publisher:

>> [Subscriber] Received PUT ('demo/example/zenoh-ts-pub': '[0] 122,101,110,111,104')
>> [Subscriber] Received PUT ('demo/example/zenoh-ts-pub': '[1] 122,101,110,111,104')
>> [Subscriber] Received PUT ('demo/example/zenoh-ts-pub': '[2] 122,101,110,111,104')

This will start an instance of Deno running the example. The application will attempt to connect to a websocket_port : 10000 where the Remote API plugin is expected to be running.

Adding Typescript to your application

The latest version of zenoh-ts library can be installed from npm:

npm install @eclipse-zenoh/zenoh-ts

See also example application in the zenoh-ts/examples/chat