# Tokio A runtime for writing reliable, asynchronous, and slim applications with the Rust programming language. It is: * **Fast**: Tokio's zero-cost abstractions give you bare-metal performance. * **Reliable**: Tokio leverages Rust's ownership, type system, and concurrency model to reduce bugs and ensure thread safety. * **Scalable**: Tokio has a minimal footprint, and handles backpressure and cancellation naturally. 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[master-dox]: https://tokio-rs.github.io/tokio/tokio/ ## Overview Tokio is an event-driven, non-blocking I/O platform for writing asynchronous applications with the Rust programming language. At a high level, it provides a few major components: * A multithreaded, work-stealing based task [scheduler]. * A [reactor] backed by the operating system's event queue (epoll, kqueue, IOCP, etc...). * Asynchronous [TCP and UDP][net] sockets. These components provide the runtime components necessary for building an asynchronous application. [net]: https://docs.rs/tokio/0.1/tokio/net/index.html [reactor]: https://docs.rs/tokio/0.1/tokio/reactor/index.html [scheduler]: https://tokio-rs.github.io/tokio/tokio/runtime/index.html ## Example A basic TCP echo server with Tokio: ```rust extern crate tokio; use tokio::prelude::*; use tokio::io::copy; use tokio::net::TcpListener; fn main() { // Bind the server's socket. let addr = "127.0.0.1:12345".parse().unwrap(); let listener = TcpListener::bind(&addr) .expect("unable to bind TCP listener"); // Pull out a stream of sockets for incoming connections let server = listener.incoming() .map_err(|e| eprintln!("accept failed = {:?}", e)) .for_each(|sock| { // Split up the reading and writing parts of the // socket. let (reader, writer) = sock.split(); // A future that echos the data and returns how // many bytes were copied... let bytes_copied = copy(reader, writer); // ... after which we'll print what happened. let handle_conn = bytes_copied.map(|amt| { println!("wrote {:?} bytes", amt) }).map_err(|err| { eprintln!("IO error {:?}", err) }); // Spawn the future as a concurrent task. tokio::spawn(handle_conn) }); // Start the Tokio runtime tokio::run(server); } ``` More examples can be found [here](examples). ## Getting Help First, see if the answer to your question can be found in the [Guides] or the [API documentation]. If the answer is not there, there is an active community in the [Tokio Gitter channel][chat]. We would be happy to try to answer your question. Last, if that doesn't work, try opening an [issue] with the question. [chat]: https://gitter.im/tokio-rs/tokio [issue]: https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/issues/new ## Contributing :balloon: Thanks for your help improving the project! We are so happy to have you! We have a [contributing guide][guide] to help you get involved in the Tokio project. [guide]: CONTRIBUTING.md ## Project layout The `tokio` crate, found at the root, is primarily intended for use by application developers. Library authors should depend on the sub crates, which have greater guarantees of stability. The crates included as part of Tokio are: * [`tokio-async-await`]: Experimental `async` / `await` support. * [`tokio-codec`]: Utilities for encoding and decoding protocol frames. * [`tokio-current-thread`]: Schedule the execution of futures on the current thread. * [`tokio-executor`]: Task execution related traits and utilities. * [`tokio-fs`]: Filesystem (and standard in / out) APIs. * [`tokio-io`]: Asynchronous I/O related traits and utilities. * [`tokio-reactor`]: Event loop that drives I/O resources (like TCP and UDP sockets). * [`tokio-tcp`]: TCP bindings for use with `tokio-io` and `tokio-reactor`. * [`tokio-threadpool`]: Schedules the execution of futures across a pool of threads. * [ `tokio-timer`]: Time related APIs. * [`tokio-udp`]: UDP bindings for use with `tokio-io` and `tokio-reactor`. * [`tokio-uds`]: Unix Domain Socket bindings for use with `tokio-io` and `tokio-reactor`. [`tokio-async-await`]: tokio-async-await [`tokio-codec`]: tokio-codec [`tokio-current-thread`]: tokio-current-thread [`tokio-executor`]: tokio-executor [`tokio-fs`]: tokio-fs [`tokio-io`]: tokio-io [`tokio-reactor`]: tokio-reactor [`tokio-tcp`]: tokio-tcp [`tokio-threadpool`]: tokio-threadpool [`tokio-timer`]: tokio-timer [`tokio-udp`]: tokio-udp [`tokio-uds`]: tokio-uds ## Supported Rust Versions Tokio is built against the latest stable, nightly, and beta Rust releases. The minimum version supported is the stable release from three months before the current stable release version. For example, if the latest stable Rust is 1.29, the minimum version supported is 1.26. The current Tokio version is not guaranteed to build on Rust versions earlier than the minimum supported version. ## License This project is licensed under the [MIT license](LICENSE). ### Contribution Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in Tokio by you, shall be licensed as MIT, without any additional terms or conditions.