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# proxylite
A dynamic reverse proxy Golang package for NAT or firewall traversal. Let's build your own tunnel with several lines of code.
[English](./README.md)|[中文](./README_ZH.md)
## proxylite
`proxylite` is a dynamic TCP reverse proxy Golang package for NAT or firewall traversal. It is god damn easy to integrate network traversal feature into your project with proxylite.

动态的Golang反向代理库,用于内网穿透或防火墙穿透。几行代码就能构建你自己的通道。
Different from well-known [frp](https://github.com/fatedier/frp), `proxylite` is not a set of runnable programs, but a lightweight package, which provides good flexibility and is easy to integrate in golang projects. Of course, build a set of runnable programs is also a piece of cake.

## Why proxylite

One day, I needed to add TCP NAT traversal to [my project](https://github.com/piaodazhu/Octopoda), so I tried to introduce [frp](https://github.com/fatedier/frp) to implement this feature. But I realized that frp needs to read configuration files and start processes, which is not a good fit for my needs:
- First of all, starting a process introduces a new independent service to the project, which makes it more difficult to **maintain**.
- Also, this approach does not allow for **easy collection of logging information**.
- Most importantly, I needed to **dynamically establish on-demand connections**, and editing the configuration file and then restarting the process was clearly inelegant.

So why not write a package to make this more elegant? proxylite was born. Its main features are listed below:
1. Easy to integrate into code. Both server and client structures are provided. Just import this package then register tunnels whenever you want.
2. Dynamic on-demand reverse proxy. **One registration, one port, one user, one tcp connection.**
3. Service registration and discovery.
4. Customized hooks are support.

## Concepts
```
+---------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------+
| Inner Service <--- Inner Client +---+> Listenning Port <--- Outer Port <+---- User
+---------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------+
NAT Nodes ... Public Server Any User
```

## Quick Start

First, you should import proxylite:
```golang
import "github.com/piaodazhu/proxylite"
```

Let's create a server:
```golang
package main
import "github.com/piaodazhu/proxylite"

func main() {
server := proxylite.NewProxyLiteServer()
server.AddPort(9930, 9932)
panic(server.Run(":9933"))
}
```

These code create a proxylite server, and add avaliable outer port 9930-9932 (Note that it is not 9930 and 9932, but from 9930 to 9932), then run the server. The server is blocked listening on port 9939, inner client will dial this port and server discovery also bind this port.

Then, we create a inner client:
```golang
package main

import (
"log"

"github.com/piaodazhu/proxylite"
)

func main() {
client := proxylite.NewProxyLiteClient("0.0.0.0:9933")
err := client.RegisterInnerService(
proxylite.RegisterInfo{
OuterPort: 9931,
InnerAddr: ":22",
Name: "ssh",
Message: "ssh login",
},
)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
return
}

entry, ok := client.GetRegisterEntryByName("ssh")
if !ok {
log.Fatal("registration failed")
return
}
<-entry.Done
log.Print("BYE :)")
}
```

These code create a inner client, binding with server `"0.0.0.0:9933"`. Then we register a inner service to the server:
```golang
proxylite.RegisterInfo{
OuterPort: 9931, // means we want map server's 9931 port to our inner service
InnerAddr: ":22", // means inner service is 127.0.0.1:22. e.g. default ssh port.
Name: "ssh", // service name
Message: "ssh login", // customized information
},
```
Then we get the registration entry if the registration is success. Finally we wait it done by reading channel.

## Tutorial

### Server
```golang
func NewProxyLiteServer(portIntervals ...[2]int) *ProxyLiteServer
```
Create a Proxy server with avaliable ports intervals.

```golang
func (s *ProxyLiteServer) AddPort(from, to int) bool
```
Create a Proxy server with avaliable ports intervals. Return false if port is invalid.

```golang
func (s *ProxyLiteServer) SetLogger(logger *log.Logger)
```
Set customized logrus logger the the server.

```golang
func (s *ProxyLiteServer) Run(addr string) error
```
Run the server and let it listen on given address.

### client

```golang
func NewProxyLiteClient(serverAddr string) *ProxyLiteClient
```
Create a inner client binding with a proxy server.

```golang
func (c *ProxyLiteClient) AvaliablePorts() ([]int, bool)
```
Get avaliable ports from proxy server.

```golang
func (c *ProxyLiteClient) AnyPort() (int, bool)
```
Get a random avaliable port from proxy server.

```golang
type ServiceInfo struct {
Port int
Name string
Message string
Busy bool
Birth time.Time
}

func (c *ProxyLiteClient) ActiveServices() ([]ServiceInfo, error)
```
Discover all active services from proxy server.


```golang
type RegisterInfo struct {
OuterPort int
InnerAddr string
Name string
Message string
}

func (c *ProxyLiteClient) RegisterInnerService(info RegisterInfo) error
```
Register inner server to proxy server's outer port.

```golang
type RegisterEntry struct {
// Basic Info
Info RegisterInfo
// Cancel function
Cancel func()
// Done channel
Done <-chan struct{}
}

func (c *ProxyLiteClient) GetRegisterEntryByName(name string) (*RegisterEntry, bool)
func (c *ProxyLiteClient) GetRegisterEntryByPort(port int) (*RegisterEntry, bool)
```
Get RegisterEntry by name or port. RegisterEntry can be used to canncel tunnel or wait done.

```golang
func (c *ProxyLiteClient) SetLogger(logger *log.Logger)
```
Set customized logrus logger for the inner client.

### Others

```golang
func AskFreePort(addr string) ([]int, error)
```
Ask avaliable free port from proxy server with given address.


```golang
func DiscoverServices(addr string) ([]ServiceInfo, error)
```
Discover all active services from proxy server with given address.

## Contributing

Feel free to open issues or pull requests to make this project better. 🌈
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