# Aldrin
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Aldrin is a message bus for service-oriented RPC and general interprocess communication.
Aldrin busses are star-shaped: there is a cental component, called the broker, to which multiple
clients can connect. These client can then publish services for other clients to use.
Services are described in a small DSL called Aldrin schema and are composed of functions and
events. Schemata are then processed by a code generator, which can output both client and
server-side code.
Here is a small toy example of an echo service:
```
service Echo {
uuid = 8920965f-110a-42ec-915c-2a65a3c47d1f;
version = 1;
fn echo @ 1 {
args = string;
ok = string;
err = enum {
EmptyString @ 1;
}
}
fn echo_all @ 2 {
args = string;
err = enum {
EmptyString @ 1;
}
}
event echoed_to_all @ 1 = string;
}
```
## Crate organization
- `aldrin`: This is the main crate, aimed at writing both client and server applications.
- `aldrin-broker`: Implements the broker-side of the protocol.
- `aldrin-core`: Shared protocol primitives used by `aldrin` and `aldrin-broker`.
- `aldrin-test`: Utilities for setting up unit tests of Aldrin services.
- `aldrin-parser`: Parser library for Aldrin schemata.
- `aldrin-codegen`: Implements client and server code generation from Aldrin schemata.
- `aldrin-gen`: Standalone frontend to the parser and code generation.
- `aldrin-macros`: Contains a macro for code generation at compile-time.