proto-thrift is a plugin of protoc. It reads gRPC service definitions and generates a reverse-proxy server which translates Thrift messages into gRPC.
To use this software, you must:
- Install the standard C++ implementation of protocol buffers from https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/
- Of course, install the Go compiler and tools from https://golang.org/ See https://golang.org/doc/install for details or, if you are using gccgo, follow the instructions at https://golang.org/doc/install/gccgo
- Grab the code from the repository and install the proto package.
The simplest way is to run
go get -u github.com/google/protobuf/proto github.com/deciphernow/proto-thrift/protoc-gen-thrift. The compiler plugin, protoc-gen-thrift, will be installed in $GOBIN, defaulting to $GOPATH/bin. It must be in your $PATH for the protocol compiler, protoc, to find it.
To generate Thrift IDL and gRPC service proxy:
$ GENHOME=$GOPATH/src/github.com/deciphernow/proto-thrift
$ THRIFT_PATH="<path where you want Thrift code to go>"
$ INCLUDE="$(dirname "$(which protoc)")/../include"
$ INCLUDE="$INCLUDE:$GENHOME/thrift"
$ protoc --proto_path=./ --proto_path=$INCLUDE --plugin=protoc-gen-custom=protoc-gen-thrift --custom_out=thrift_path=$THRIFT_PATH:. hello.proto
Then generate Go code from the Thrift IDL:
$ generator hello.thrift $PWD/thrift-build