Before this PR there were cases where error messages never reach the user because logging was not initialized yet. This PR moves log initialization to the start of the program, so that all logged messages reach the user.
Delta Chat RPC server
This program provides a JSON-RPC 2.0 interface to DeltaChat over standard I/O.
Install
To download binary pre-builds check the releases page.
Rename the downloaded binary to deltachat-rpc-server and add it to your PATH.
To install from source run:
cargo install --git https://github.com/chatmail/core/ deltachat-rpc-server
The deltachat-rpc-server executable will be installed into $HOME/.cargo/bin that should be available
in your PATH.
Usage
To use just run deltachat-rpc-server command. The accounts folder will be created in the current
working directory unless DC_ACCOUNTS_PATH is set:
export DC_ACCOUNTS_PATH=$HOME/delta/
deltachat-rpc-server
The common use case for this program is to create bindings to use Delta Chat core from programming languages other than Rust, for example:
- Python: https://pypi.org/project/deltachat-rpc-client/
- Go: https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-rpc-client-go/
Run deltachat-rpc-server --version to check the version of the server.
Run deltachat-rpc-server --openrpc to get OpenRPC specification of the provided JSON-RPC API.