dukas-grpc

dukas-grpc is a standalone server application for providing gRPC access to Dukascopy's JForex trading platform. The official JForex SDK allows the user to use JForex API by programming custom Java applications. dukas-grpc server leverages this official SDK and provides gRPC access for the SDK.

• gRPC interface for request/response communication and publish/subscribe stream messaging.
• Optimized messaging performance over HTTP/2 or unix domain sockets.
• Automatic connection management with JForex platform. (cf: connect, throttled-reconnect, ...)

Getting Started

Trading Account

First of all, a valid Dukascopy trading account is required for the API access. If you do not have one yet, a demo account can be created on the fly.

The IP address of the dukas-grpc server machine needs to be registered to the account. This is mandatory, since API access from an unregistered IP address will need to provide a dynamic PIN code, which is not ideal for automated server applications. IP whitelisting can be done via "Summary > My Account > Security Settings > IP registration" after logging into the official website.

Launching Server

• Java Runtime Environment 11 or later is required. (cf: sudo dnf -y install java-11-openjdk).
• Download the WAR archive from releases page.
• Configure login credentials as either environment variables (foo=bar java -jar ...), or as system properties (-Dfoo=bar).
• List of available configuration keys and default values can be found in com.after_sunrise.dukascopy.grpc.Config.java.
• Use web-application container of your choice to deploy the war file, such as jetty-runner.

After launching the application, search the log output for the following lines to confirm that the login credentials are configured correctly.

yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS|INFO |...|IClient connecting... (url=http://platform.dukas.../jforex.jnlp,..., user=DemoUser)

Sample Client/Server Applications

• Create and configure a configuration file ./logs/dukas-test.properties containing the login credentials.
• From an IDE, launch com.after_sunrise.dukascopy.grpc.WebappServerTest#main to launch the server application.
• From an IDE, launch com.after_sunrise.dukascopy.grpc.WebappClientTest methods to try out the requests and subscriptions.
• gRPC IDL file can be found at ./src/main/proto/dukascopy.proto.

Bulding from Source

JDK 11 or later is required. Make sure the JAVA_HOME environment variable is configured. Then Clone the repository, and use gradle(w) to build the archives.

$JAVA_HOME/bin/java -version

git clone [email protected]:after-the-sunrise/dukas-grpc.git

cd dukas-grpc && ./gradlew clean build

The archive is generated under ./build/libs/ directory.