gRPC on the client side

• Kryo

  4 6,236 8.8 HTML

  Java binary serialization and cloning: fast, efficient, automatic

  

  Other serialization alternatives have a schema validation option: e.g., Avro, Kryo and Protocol Buffers. Interestingly enough, gRPC uses Protobuf to offer RPC across distributed components:

• SaaSHub

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  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

• grpcurl

  38 11,090 6.3 Go

  Like cURL, but for gRPC: Command-line tool for interacting with gRPC servers

  

  The whole idea behind the post is that accessing the gRPC service with regular tools is impossible. To test, we need a dedicated tool nonetheless. I found grpcurl. Let's install it and use it to list available services:

• grpc-web

  35 8,736 6.8 JavaScript

  gRPC for Web Clients

  

  -- grpc-web

• os-maven-plugin

  2 303 0.0 Java

  A Maven plugin that sets various useful properties detected from ${os.name} and ${os.arch} properties.

  os-maven-plugin

• json-schema-spec

  48 3,964 8.9 JavaScript

  The JSON Schema specification

  

  Most inter-systems communication components that use REST serialize their payload in JSON. As of now, JSON lacks a widely-used schema validation standard: JSON Schema is not widespread. Standard schema validation allows delegating the validation to a third-party library and being done with it. Without one, we must fall back to manual validation in the code. Worse, we must keep the validation code in sync with the schema.

• protobuf-maven-plugin

  1 243 0.0 Java

  Maven Plugin that executes the Protocol Buffers (protoc) compiler

  

  Maven Protocol Buffers Plugin

• gRPC

  217 42,245 9.9 C++

  The C based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#)

  

  -- Why gRPC?

• Apache Avro

  23 2,977 9.7 Java

  Apache Avro is a data serialization system.

  

  Other serialization alternatives have a schema validation option: e.g., Avro, Kryo and Protocol Buffers. Interestingly enough, gRPC uses Protobuf to offer RPC across distributed components:

• apisix-dashboard

  35 1,026 3.2 Go

  Dashboard for Apache APISIX

  

  An alternative exists, though, if you're using an API Gateway. I'll describe how to do it with Apache APISIX, but perhaps other gateways can do the same. grpc-transcode is a plugin that allows transcoding REST calls to gRPC and back again.

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