grpc-demo/README.md

gRPC - demo

How to run it locally?

Prerequisites:

• Go 1.19+
• protoc
• Go plugins for the protocol compiler:
  • go install google.golang.org/protobuf/cmd/protoc-gen-go@v1.30.0
  • go install google.golang.org/grpc/cmd/protoc-gen-go-grpc@v1.3.0

1. Clone this repo.
2. cd ./grpc-demo
3. Run go generate ./....
4. Compile and execute the server code - go run ./cmd/server/main.go.
5. From a different terminal, compile and execute the client code - go run ./cmd/client/main.go -example unary.

Client - available examples

1. unary - example of the simplest type of RPC where the client sends a single request and gets back a single response. It's the default one.
2. server - example of server streaming RPC.
3. client - example of client streaming RPC.
4. bidirectional - example of bidirectional streaming RPC.
5. james - SayHelloToJames without error
6. jameserror - error handling