gRPC

This is a quick spinup of a gRPC client and server in Go. It includes examples of different types of RPCs including Unary, Server Streaming, Client Streaming, and Bidirectional Streaming. This project setups a quick Postgres database with a GORM connection, and the client makes requests to the server for user actions.

Project structure follows the commuity-recommended guidlines. I also used Makefiles for cleaner code and to reduce the need to run protoc for every protocol buffer change.

Features

• Unary RPCs where the client sends a single request to the server and gets a single response back.
• Server streaming RPCs where the client sends a request to the server and gets a stream to read a sequence of messages back.
• Client streaming RPCs where the client writes a sequence of messages and sends them to the server, again using a provided stream.
• Bidirectional streaming RPCs where both sides send a sequence of messages using a read-write stream.

Running the Code

1. Clone the repository to your local machine.
2. Navigate to the project directory.
3. To run the server, navigate to the server directory and run make run.
4. To run the client, navigate to the client directory and run make run in a separate terminal session.

If changes are made to the message and service definitions, re-compile protocol buffers via make generate

Dependencies

This project uses the following dependencies:

• google.golang.org/grpc
• google.golang.org/protobuf

Next

Look to dockerize this application -> implement this logic in microservices when deploying plant-trait model