gospace

goSpace

Synopsis

goSpace, a pSpace implementation in Go.

Importing goSpace

To get goSpace, do:

go get -u github.com/pspaces/gospace

To import goSpace into your project, add:

import (
      "github.com/pspaces/gospace"
)

Documentation

Documentation for goSpace can be accessed through the terminal with go doc or viewed online with godoc.

Library

Usage

A space can be created by using NewSpace for creating a local space or NewRemoteSpace for connecting to a remote space.

To create a space on the local host, one can do:

spc := gospace.NewSpace("space")

To connect to a remote space with name space, one can do:

spc := gospace.NewRemoteSpace("tcp://example.com/space")

In order to use goSpace efficiently, there are certain rules one needs to be aware of:

1. An operation acts on a Space structure.
2. Tuples contain values. Templates contain values and types.
3. Ordinary operations such as Put, Get and so forth are blocking operations.
4. Ordinary operations postfixed by a P such as PutP, GetP and so forth are non-blocking operations.
5. Aggregation operations postfixed by a Agg such as PutAgg, GetAgg and so forth are non-blocking operations.
6. Aggregation operations require inclusion of a user defined function f which operate on a Tuple structure and has the signature func(Tuple, Tuple) Tuple.
7. Aggregation operations require that the user defined function f exists on all peers that will use that function.
8. For Put and PutP operations the parameters must be values. For the remaining operations the parameters must be values or binding variables for pattern matching.
9. Return signature of an operations is always func(...) (Tuple, error).

Due to aggregation operators, binding variables are not written to when an operation completes.

Operators

goSpace strives to follow the pSpace specification. It contains the following operations:

Put(x_1, x_2, ..., x_n)
PutP(x_1, x_2, ..., x_n)
Get(x_1, x_2, ..., x_n)
GetP(x_1, x_2, ..., x_n)
GetAll(x_1, x_2, ..., x_n)
Query(x_1, x_2, ..., x_n)
QueryP(x_1, x_2, ..., x_n)
QueryAll(x_1, x_2, ..., x_n)

Do note that GetAll and QueryAll are non-blocking operators.

goSpace has experimental operators for aggregating tuples in a space. It contains the following operations:

PutAgg(f, x_1, x_2, ..., x_n)
GetAgg(f, x_1, x_2, ..., x_n)
QueryAgg(f, x_1, x_2, ..., x_n)

Specification

The specification for the pSpace can be found here.

Limitations

There are currently some limitations to the implementation:

• Strict 4 GiB size limit on the tuple space.
• Only TCP over IPv4 is supported.
• Gates and space repositories are not supported.
• Multiplexing of multiple spaces over a single gate is not supported.
• Performance is bouded by the amount of connections established due to networking code.

These limitations are currently being resolved.

Examples

Examples and cases for goSpace can be found here.

Contributing

Want to contribute? See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Authors

See AUTHORS.md.

License

MIT License. See LICENSE.md.