Cannot import predefined google/protobuf/*.proto in node environment.

[ldshi]

import "google/protobuf/empty.proto";
import "google/protobuf/any.proto";

will try to find the file with path: __dirname + google/protobuf/empty.proto, also tried to search the whole grpc node_module, cannot find the corresponding files.

what should I do?

[thinkerou]

You should use the follow code?

import "src/proto/grpc/testing/empty.proto"

[ldshi]

For the 'empty.proto' i can see the file is there, but for the 'any.proto' totally no that file.

And also in node environment with dynamic mode, no idea how to control the path.

[thinkerou]

➜  grpc git:(master) pwd
/Users/thinkerou/Documents/opensource/grpc
➜  grpc git:(master) find . -name "any.proto"
./third_party/protobuf/src/google/protobuf/any.proto
➜  grpc git:(master)

[ldshi]

In node environment, all modules supposed to be maintained by npm, so did u try to search int he node_module installed by 'npm install grpc'? i mentioned this very clearly in the issue description.

Apparently u should not download all the source then search there.

[dehypnosis]

same issue.. have any progress?

[HTChang]

@murgatroid99 @nathanielmanistaatgoogle so what is the best practice to include the predefined proto like empty?
the path we use is

 import "google/protobuf/empty.proto";

the proto was used for multiple language like go, java which is not just for JS.

[ikcro]

This question is not answered, many people have this doubt

[thedodd]

Would definitely be nice to see a resolution to this issue. Else, workaround seems to be: drop use of google/protobuf types, and implement your own types as somewhat close replacements.

In rust, golang and other languages where code generation is used for protobuf/grpc, this is not an issue.

[murgatroid99]

We have now published the @grpc/proto-loader package, which allows for loading google/protobuf/*.proto files. If you have this problem, please try that package out.