Visit Directly

Kitex can opt for direct access without service discovery when the downstream address is clear.

Specify RPC Host and Port

You can use callopt.WithHostPort to specify host and port, supports two parameters:

  • Normal IP address, in the form of host:port, support IPv6
  • Sock file address, communicating with UDS (Unix Domain Socket)
import "github.com/cloudwego/kitex/client/callopt"
...
resp, err := cli.Echo(context.Background(), req, callopt.WithHostPort("127.0.0.1:8888"))
if err != nil {
   log.Fatal(err)
}

Specify RPC URL

You can use callopt.WithURL to specify a URL, which will be resolved by default DNS resolver to get host and port. It’s functionally equal to callopt.WithHostPort.

import "github.com/cloudwego/kitex/client/callopt"
...
url := callopt.WithURL("http://myserverdomain.com:8888")
resp, err := cli.Echo(context.Background(), req, url)
if err != nil {
	log.Fatal(err)
}

Customized DNS resolver

You can also use your own DNS resolver

resolver interface(pkg/http):

type Resolver interface {
	Resolve(string) (string, error)
}

The only parameter is URL,return value should be “host:port”.

You can use client.WithHTTPResolver to specify DNS resolver.

import "github.com/cloudwego/kitex/client/callopt"
...
dr := client.WithHTTPResolver(myResolver)
cli, err := echo.NewClient("echo", dr)
if err != nil {
	log.Fatal(err)
}

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