gengrpc - Generate gRPC

Copyright (c) 2022, 2023, Geert JM Vanderkelen

gengrpc is a package and command line tool to generate gRPC code from Protocol Buffer contract files. It is based on the tool found in the project pxmysql but focusing on getting the contracts through Go packages. The idea is to eventually use genrpc in pxmysql, merging both functionalities.

Quick start

This project wraps around the protoc tool. You will need to install this first. Actually, you can use protoc directly, but it can become painful with lots of contract files (hence this package).

You have:

• contract files (*.proto) in a shared Go package, for example, example.com/golistic/shared and files are located in that repository under grpc
• you have another project example.com/golistic/eventing which needs to generate using the contract files found in the shared project
• you want the generate code in the folder internal/grpc

Using the above example, you can the execute the following:

$ gorpc --module example.com/golistic/eventing \
 --source example.com/golistic/shared \
 --source-path grpc \
 --dest-path internal/grpc

The --source-path flag is optional. If not provided, all .proto files will be included.

The source-package must be loaded through Go modules. It works using Go workspaces.

License

Distributed under the MIT license. See LICENSE.md for more information.