Resonance is a high-performance real-time C# communication library with built-in support for several different transcoding and delivery methods. This library provides an intuitive API for asynchronous communication between machines and devices by exposing a set of easy to use, pluggable components.
Resonance is a request-response based communication framework. This means that for each request that is being sent, a matching response is expected. This is done by attaching a unique token to each request and expecting the same token from the response. Although the request-response pattern is the recommended approach, it is not enforced. Sending messages without expecting any response is possible.
The resonance library might be described by these 3 basic layers:
A transporter responsibility is to provide the API for sending and receiving messages, managing those messages, and propagating the necessary information to other components.
Encoders and Decoders are components that can be plugged to a transporter, they determine how outgoing/incoming messages should be encoded and whether the data should be encrypted and/or compressed. The Following built-in transcoding methods are currently supported by the library:
- Json
- Bson
- Protobuf
- Xml
Adapters can also be plugged to a transporter to determine how outgoing/incoming encoded data is going to be transmitted and where. The following built-in adapters are currently supported by the library:
- TCP
- UDP
- USB
- In-Memory
- SignalR
- WebRTC
- Named Pipes
- Shared Memory