protoc-gen-lazy-proxy

protoc-gen-lazy-proxy will generate a connect-go server which as a proxy for an existing grpc server(s) which will convert and forward http1 traffic to the existing grpc server.

• Allows web clients to intgegrate with gRPC services that have not set up handling serving http1 traffic.
• Allows curl to be used against gRPC services

Supports the following RPC methods.

	connect-go
unary RPC methods	✅
streaming RPC methods

instalation

go install github.com/lcmaguire/protoc-gen-lazy-proxy@latest

or 

go get github.com/lcmaguire/protoc-gen-lazy-proxy@latest

Config

include in an .env file the ServiceName with the url you would want it to forward to.

{{ServiceName}}={{targetURL}}
...
SampleService=localhost:8082

Useage

will serve traffic on localhost:8080 for all of the services included in the proto generation

will write file to .{{out}}/lazyproxy/main.go

reccomended to use buf to generate proto files. see below for a sample buf.gen.yaml

version: v1
plugins:
  - name: go
    out: proto
    opt: paths=source_relative
  - name: go-grpc
    out: proto
    opt: paths=source_relative
  - name: connect-go
    out: proto
    opt: paths=source_relative
  - name: lazy-proxy
    out: lp # will create file in lp/lazyproxy/main.go
    opt: paths=source_relative
    strategy: all # currently will generate one executeable for all protoc files included.