capnproto-java-rpc/README.md

capnproto-java: Cap'n Proto for Java

This is an experimental pure Java implementation of Cap'n Proto.

It doesn't do much yet.

getting started

You will need SBT. We recommend this version.

To compile:

$ sbt compile

To read a message:

$ echo '(people = [(id = 123, name = "Alice", email = "alice@example.com", employment = (school = "MIT"))])' \
 | capnp encode examples/src/main/schema/addressbook.capnp AddressBook \
 | java -cp runtime/target/scala-2.11/classes:examples/target/scala-2.11/classes/ \
   org.capnproto.examples.AddressbookMain read

To write a message:

$ java -cp runtime/target/scala-2.11/classes:examples/target/scala-2.11/classes/  \
  org.capnproto.examples.AddressbookMain write \
  | capnp decode examples/src/main/schema/addressbook.capnp AddressBook

To generate IntelliJ project files, do sbt update gen-idea.