client-service model quesiton about nuraft

[greensky00]

This library has such a protocol to handle client requests over the network:

NuRaft/src/raft_server.cxx

Lines 636 to 639 in 50031e1

	if ( req.get_type() == msg_type::client_request ) {
	// Client request doesn't need to go through below process.
	return handle_cli_req_prelock(req, ext_params);
	}

but we don't recommend it as it is inconvenient and lack functionalities such as error handling and throttling.

In eBay, we use our own server-client implementation using gRPC or REST API, and the server operates NuRaft with local append_entries() API call.

[BozeBro]

Does a client implementation exist in the library or is this also left up to the developer?

[greensky00]

It is not in the library, you should write your own one with Asio.