etcd-grpc

A gRPC based etcd client for NodeJS targeting etcd V3.

Etcd is a distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system.

This NPM package provides a high performance gRPC based promisified clients for Etcd V3. It's open-source and it's written with TypeScript.

The source code is available on GitHub where you can also find our issue tracker.

Installation

Run the command below to install the package.

npm install --save etcd-grpc

Getting Started

Before you start make sure that etcd is running on your local machine. Code snippets below expect that etcd is listening locally on the default port 2379. To make the code clean, the examples are written in TypeScript.

Initialization

Etcd API consists of multiple gRPC services. This package provides all these functionalities through a unified API.

You start by initializing a new client.

import { Etcd } from "etcd-grpc";
 
const client = new Etcd();

KV Service

The KV etcd service provides the API for reading, updating and deleting keys stored in etcd.

We can set the name key with value John as show below. Note that key and value must be of type Buffer.

client.put({
  key: new Buffer("name"),
  value: new Buffer("John"),
}).then((res) => {
  console.log(res);
});

The connection to the etcd server can sometimes fail thus the performing commands can fail. A command will throw an error in case of connectivity problem which we can catch and then reconnect the client manually.

import { getErrorKind, ErrorKind } from "etcd-grpc";
 
promise.catch((err) => {
  if (getErrorKind(err) === ErrorKind.CONNECTION_FAILED) {
    client.reconnect(); // reconnect the client to the next available endpoint (round-robin style)
    client.put({ ... }); // try-again code
  } else {
    throw err;
  }
});

We can read one or many keys from the server using the range method. In the following example we retrieve a single key name.

client.range({
  key: new Buffer("name"),
}).then((res) => {
  console.log(res);
});

There are some parts of etcd that could represent an endless source of confusion. Etcd stores keys in a sequence and there is a special key \0 which you can use to target the first or the last key in the store.

client.range({
  key: new Buffer("\0"), // first key
  rangeEnd: new Buffer("\0"), // last key
}).then((res) => {
  console.log(res);
});

Another trick is that if you set rangeEnd to the key plus one byte, the etcd will read keys from key to the last key prefixed with key (all keys of a directory). This means that if the key name is /aaa, then to get the rest of the keys of that prefix, we need to set rangeEnd to aab. You can use the incstr NPM module to increment strings or check the Stackoverflow page.

client.range({
  key: new Buffer("name/aaa"), // start key
  rangeEnd: new Buffer("name/aab"), // get all keys `name/{something}` from `name/aaa`
}).then((res) => {
  console.log(res);
});

Keys can be deleted from the server using the rangeDelete method. In the following example we delete a single key name.

client.rangeDelete({
  key: new Buffer("name"),
}).then((res) => {
  console.log(res);
});

We can also perform multiple operations in transaction using the txn method. The following example sets the name key to bar if that key already exists with a value set to foo.

import { CompareResult, CompareTarget } from "etcd-grpc";
 
client.txn({
  compare: {
    result: CompareResult.EQUAL, // must be equal to
    target: CompareTarget.VALUE, // check the value
    key: new Buffer("name"), // key name
    value: new Buffer("foo"), // key value
  },
  success: [{ // run these operations if the `compare` successeeds
    requestPut: {
      key: new Buffer("name"),
      value: new Buffer("bar"),
    }
  }],
  failure: [{ // run these operations if the `compare` fails
    requestPut: {
      key: new Buffer("name"),
      value: new Buffer("foo"),
    }
  }],
}).then((res) => {
  console.log(res);
});

There's more so please use TypeScript or check the source files.

Lease Service

The Lease service provides an interface for managing keys TTL. We can use that to set the automatic expiration for one or multiple keys. The following example shows how to set a key which is automatically removed after 10s.

client.leaseGrant({
  ttl: 5,
  id: 100
}).then(({ id }) => {
  return client.put({
    key: new Buffer("name"),
    value: new Buffer("John"),
    lease: id, // attach this key to lease
  });
});

There's more so please use TypeScript or check the source files.

Watch Service

The Watch service allows us to connect to the etcd server and listen for changes. The example below shows how to quickly setup a watcher.

const watcher = client.createWatcher();
watcher.on("data", console.log);
watcher.on("finish", console.log);
watcher.on("end", console.log);
watcher.on("close", console.log);
watcher.on("error", console.log);
watcher.watch({ // watch the `name` key
  key: new Buffer("name"),
});

The watch() command can be called multiple times. It will automatically cose the previous watch request. This is handy when handling a reconnect.

import { getErrorKind, ErrorKind } from "etcd-grpc";
 
watcher.on("error", (err) => {
  if (getErrorKind(err) === ErrorKind.CONNECTION_FAILED) {
    client.reconnect(); // reconfigure the client
    watcher.watch({ ... }); // start watching through reconfigured client
  }
});

Watcher can be closed by calling the close() method.

There's more so please use TypeScript or check the source files.

Related Packages

• etcd3
• node-etcd3

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