it depends on your needs

most of my api calls are written in python, I have no framework

It's also huge 😕

It might be easier to just create a custom protocol, I'm using NIO coroutine channels for other communication anyway

wait... rest is usually HTTP(s) get, put, delete, post

it's a static server

So?

so, why need custom protocol?

I forgot patch

Because it's faster and I've done it before 😓 Okay I'll try it haha

Like I was saying, it's your call, but rest is really easy

https://github.com/perwendel/spark seems cool!

it's a great seperation of concerns

your rest server could be node.js and your client can be tornadofx

The server uses direct byte based communication to get data from microprocessors but needs to provide an interface for the tornadofx client.

yep, you lost me.

No, I'll write the server in Kotlin since the whole microprocessor comm is already finished 🙂

Haha no problem, I'll figure it out

I don't have a clue what you're trying to make

( microprocessors from all over the world ) -> send data using byte based protocol to a central server The server provides data to the clients using a REST interface

oh, so you have two places to build

I'm using coroutines with java NIO for the microprocessor side, seems to be working really well!

It prevents needing a thread per connection, which I'd like to avoid since there might be hundreds of connections

yeah, that's pretty awesome.

Mostly just sitting there doing nothing

then you need to build on the other side for consumption of the data

Gonna install spark and see if I can get something up and running 😄

so, it would probably take you two layers to make a consumable api for a tornadofx client.

NIO -> aggregate -> rest -> tornadofx

good luck 🙂