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Extra decorators for creating async TCP/IP connections, built on top of ReactPHP's Socket component
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Requires
- php: >=5.3
- react/event-loop: ^1.2
- react/promise: ^3 || ^2.1 || ^1.2.1
- react/promise-timer: ^1.9
- react/socket: ^1.12
Requires (Dev)
- phpunit/phpunit: ^9.3 || ^5.7 || ^4.8
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This project provides extra (in terms of "additional", "extraordinary", "special" and "unusual") decorators, built on top of ReactPHP's Socket.
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Introduction
If you're not already familar with react/socket,
think of it as an async (non-blocking) version of fsockopen()
or stream_socket_client()
.
I.e. before you can send and receive data to/from a remote server, you first have to establish a connection - which
takes its time because it involves several steps.
In order to be able to establish several connections at the same time, react/socket provides a simple
API to establish simple connections in an async (non-blocking) way.
This project includes several classes that extend this base functionality by implementing the same simple ConnectorInterface
.
This interface provides a single promise-based method connect($uri)
which can be used to easily notify
when the connection is successfully established or the Connector
gives up and the connection fails.
$connector->connect('www.google.com:80')->then(function ($stream) { echo 'connection successfully established'; $stream->write("GET / HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: www.google.com\r\n\r\n"); $stream->end(); }, function ($exception) { echo 'connection attempt failed: ' . $exception->getMessage(); });
Because everything uses the same simple API, the resulting Connector
classes can be easily interchanged
and be used in places that expect the normal ConnectorInterface
. This can be used to stack them into each other,
like using timeouts for TCP connections, delaying SSL/TLS connections,
retrying failed connection attempts, randomly picking a Connector
or
any combination thereof.
Usage
This section lists all features of this library along with some examples.
The examples assume you've installed this library and
already set up a Socket/Connector
instance $connector
.
All classes are located in the ConnectionManager\Extra
namespace.
Repeat
The ConnectionManagerRepeat($connector, $tries)
tries connecting to the given location up to a maximum
of $tries
times when the connection fails.
If you pass a value of 3
to it, it will first issue a normal connection attempt
and then retry up to 2 times if the connection attempt fails:
$connectorRepeater = new ConnectionManagerRepeat($connector, 3); $connectorRepeater->connect('www.google.com:80')->then(function ($stream) { echo 'connection successfully established'; $stream->close(); });
Timeout
The ConnectionManagerTimeout($connector, $timeout, $loop = null)
sets a maximum $timeout
in seconds on when to give up
waiting for the connection to complete.
$connector = new ConnectionManagerTimeout($connector, 3.0);
Delay
The ConnectionManagerDelay($connector, $delay, $loop = null)
sets a fixed initial $delay
in seconds before actually
trying to connect. (Not to be confused with ConnectionManagerTimeout
which sets a maximum timeout.)
$delayed = new ConnectionManagerDelayed($connector, 0.5);
Reject
The ConnectionManagerReject(null|string|callable $reason)
simply rejects every single connection attempt.
This is particularly useful for the below ConnectionManagerSelective
to reject connection attempts
to only certain destinations (for example blocking advertisements or harmful sites).
The constructor accepts an optional rejection reason which will be used for rejecting the resulting promise.
You can explicitly pass a string
value which will be used as the message for
the Exception
instance:
$connector = new ConnectionManagerReject('Blocked'); $connector->connect('www.google.com:80')->then(null, function ($e) { assert($e instanceof \Exception); assert($e->getMessage() === 'Blocked'); });
You can explicitly pass a callable
value which will be used to either
throw
or return
a custom Exception
instance:
$connector = new ConnectionManagerReject(function ($uri) { throw new RuntimeException($uri . ' blocked'); }); $connector->connect('www.google.com:80')->then(null, function ($e) { assert($e instanceof \RuntimeException); assert($e->getMessage() === 'www.google.com:80 blocked'); });
Swappable
The ConnectionManagerSwappable($connector)
is a simple decorator for other ConnectionManager
s to
simplify exchanging the actual ConnectionManager
during runtime (->setConnectionManager($connector)
).
Consecutive
The ConnectionManagerConsecutive($connectors)
establishes connections by trying to connect through
any of the given ConnectionManager
s in consecutive order until the first one succeeds.
$consecutive = new ConnectionManagerConsecutive(array( $connector1, $connector2 ));
Random
The ConnectionManagerRandom($connectors)
works much like ConnectionManagerConsecutive
but instead
of using a fixed order, it always uses a randomly shuffled order.
$random = new ConnectionManagerRandom(array( $connector1, $connector2 ));
Concurrent
The ConnectionManagerConcurrent($connectors)
establishes connections by trying to connect through
ALL of the given ConnectionManager
s at once, until the first one succeeds.
$concurrent = new ConnectionManagerConcurrent(array( $connector1, $connector2 ));
Selective
The ConnectionManagerSelective($connectors)
manages a list of Connector
s and
forwards each connection through the first matching one.
This can be used to implement networking access control lists (ACLs) or firewall
rules like a blacklist or whitelist.
This allows fine-grained control on how to handle outgoing connections, like rejecting advertisements, delaying unencrypted HTTP requests or forwarding HTTPS connection through a foreign country.
If none of the entries in the list matches, the connection will be rejected. This can be used to implement a very simple whitelist like this:
$selective = new ConnectionManagerSelective(array( 'github.com' => $connector, '*:443' => $connector ));
If you want to implement a blacklist (i.e. reject only certain targets), make sure to add a default target to the end of the list like this:
$reject = new ConnectionManagerReject(); $selective = new ConnectionManagerSelective(array( 'ads.example.com' => $reject, '*:80-81' => $reject, '*' => $connector ));
Similarly, you can also combine any of the other connectors to implement more advanced connection setups, such as delaying unencrypted connections only and retrying unreliable hosts:
// delay connection by 2 seconds $delayed = new ConnectionManagerDelay($connector, 2.0); // maximum of 3 tries, each taking no longer than 2.0 seconds $retry = new ConnectionManagerRepeat( new ConnectionManagerTimeout($connector, 2.0), 3 ); $selective = new ConnectionManagerSelective(array( '*:80' => $delayed, 'unreliable.example.com' => $retry, '*' => $connector ));
Each entry in the list MUST be in the form host
or host:port
, where
host
may contain the *
wildcard character and port
may be given as
either an exact port number or as a range in the form of min-max
.
Passing anything else will result in an InvalidArgumentException
.
Note that the host will be matched exactly as-is otherwise. This means that if you only block
youtube.com
, this has no effect onwww.youtube.com
. You may want to add a second rule for*.youtube.com
in this case.
Install
The recommended way to install this library is through Composer. New to Composer?
This project follows SemVer. This will install the latest supported version:
composer require clue/connection-manager-extra:^1.3
See also the CHANGELOG for details about version upgrades.
This project aims to run on any platform and thus does not require any PHP extensions and supports running on legacy PHP 5.3 through current PHP 8+ and HHVM. It's highly recommended to use the latest supported PHP version for this project.
Tests
To run the test suite, you first need to clone this repo and then install all dependencies through Composer:
composer install
To run the test suite, go to the project root and run:
vendor/bin/phpunit
License
This project is released under the permissive MIT license.
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