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One TLS API to rule them all

Support both:

  • tokio
  • async-std

and four TLS implementations:

  • tls-api-openssl, wraps openssl crate
  • tls-api-rustls, wraps rustls crate
  • tls-api-native-tls, wraps native-tls crate
  • tls-api-security-framework, wraps security-framework crate

The idea is that code can be written without the knowledge of the TLS implementation used, like this:

use tls_api::{TlsConnector, TlsConnectorBuilder};
// or async_std::net::TcpStream;
use tokio::net::TcpStream;

async fn download_rust_lang_org<C: TlsConnector>() -> anyhow::Result<Vec<u8>> {
    let stream = TcpStream::connect(("rust-lang.org", 443)).await?;
    let mut  stream = C::builder()?.build()?.connect("rust-lang.org", stream).await?;
    stream.write_all(b"GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: rust-lang.org\r\n\r\n").await?;
    let mut buf = Vec::new();
    stream.read_to_end(&mut buf).await?;
    Ok(buf)
}

or the same code with dynamic connector:

use tls_api::TlsConnectorType;
// or async_std::net::TcpStream;
use tokio::net::TcpStream;

async fn download_rust_lang_org(connector_type: &dyn TlsConnectorType) -> anyhow::Result<Vec<u8>> {
    let stream = TcpStream::connect(("rust-lang.org", 443)).await?;
    let mut  stream = connector_type.builder()?.build()?.connect("rust-lang.org", stream).await?;
    stream.write_all(b"GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: rust-lang.org\r\n\r\n").await?;
    let mut buf = Vec::new();
    stream.read_to_end(&mut buf).await?;
    Ok(buf)
}

Have a look at working example invoking all implementation on GitHub.

There are also two fake implementations:

  • tls-api-stub crate which returns an error on any operations, useful to check code compiles
  • tls-api-no-tls fake implementation which returns plain sockets without TLS

The API is provided to be compatible with both tokio and async-std. Crate features:

  • runtime-tokio enables the implementation over tokio
  • runtime-async-std enables the implementation over async-std

Currently the features are mutually exclusive.

Modules

Utility used in different implementations of TLS API.

Tokio or async-std type reexports.

Interfaces needed by API implementor (like tls-api-rustls), and not needed by the users of API.

Macros

Common part of all connectors. Poor man replacement for HKT.

Delegate AsyncSocket implementation to the underlying socket.

Common part of all connectors. Poor man replacement for HKT.

Structs

Newtype for Pin<Box<Future>> for simpler function signatures.

Basic info about the implementation.

Dynamic version of TlsAcceptor.

Configured connector. This is a dynamic version of TlsConnector.

TlsConnector without type parameter.

Similar to TlsStreamWithSocket, but without a socket type parameter.

TLS stream object returned by connect_with_socket and accept_with_socket operations.

Traits

Type alias for necessary socket async traits.

A builder for server-side TLS connections.

A builder for TlsAcceptors.

Similar to TlsAcceptor, but it is dynamic, does not require type parameter.

A builder for client-side TLS connections.

A builder for TlsConnectors.

Similar to TlsConnector, but it is dynamic, does not require type parameter.

Trait implemented by all TlsStream objects.

Get the underlying socket.