The Barrister parser, which converts the IDL file into JSON/HTML is written in Python.
Regardless of what language you write your clients/servers in, you'll probably want to install
this package so you can translate your .idl files. Once you have the .json file for your
IDL, you can copy that around into any server projects that implement it. Your client and
server programs only need the language binding for the language they're written in.
Python ships with an easy_install utility that knows about the main
Python Package Index. Unfortunately it doesn't know how to
do things like uninstall, so we encourage using pip.
To install pip, run: easy_install pip
Then: pip install --pre barrister
At that point you should be able to run: barrister -h
The GitHub project for each language includes more detailed information on how to write clients and servers using the binding.
| Language | GitHub | Quick Install | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Python | barrister | pip install --pre barrister |
Includes core barrister CLI plus Python client/server bindings |
| Ruby | barrister-ruby | gem install barrister |
Ruby client/server bindings |
| Java | barrister-java | See GitHub - Available via Maven | Java client/server bindings + code generator |
| Javascript / Node.js | barrister-js | npm install barrister |
Node.js client/server bindings. Web browser client only. |
| PHP | barrister-php | curl -L -o barrister.php http://bit.ly/IHZBGg |
PHP client/server bindings |