This repository provides a small working example showing the use of Spring Boot and JSON-RPC. As JSON-RPC implementation jsonrpc4j is used.

The code is based on the post Is Java Remote Procedure Call Dead in the REST Age? written by Lieven Doclo.

build

mvn clean package

run the server

java -jar target/JsonRPC-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar

send a JSON RPC request

Linux/OSX

curl -v -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"id":0, "method":"sayHelloWorld", "params":["John Doe"]}' \
    http://localhost:8080/rpc/myservice

Windows

curl -v -H "Content-Type: application/json"  ^
    -d "{\"id\":0, \"method\":\"sayHelloWorld\", \"params\":[\"John Doe\"]}" ^
    http://localhost:8080/rpc/myservice

output

> POST /rpc/myservice HTTP/1.1
> Host: localhost:8080
> User-Agent: curl/7.45.0
> Accept: */*
> Content-Type: application/json
> Content-Length: 57
> 
* upload completely sent off: 57 out of 57 bytes
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
< Content-Type: application/json-rpc;charset=UTF-8
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 00:12:59 GMT
< 
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":0,"result":"Hello world, John Doe"}