Show HN: Fully-featured desktop gRPC/gRPC-Web client

Re:Show HN: Fully-featured desktop gRPC/gRPC-Web client by jrockway on Monday November 07, 2022 @03:47PM (#33512192)

I decided to give it a try. It wants you to select your "proto path" as a first step. Mine is a directory; we have something like src/ and then subsystems' proto files live in src/subsystem/subsystem.proto and import each other with 'import subsystem/subsystem.proto'. It didn't let me pick a directory with the file checker, nor did it let me just type a directory name, so that's annoying.

I picked one of the subsystems at random and it fails to import gogo's proto files. Yeah, that's always an annoyance, I guess you have to "go mod download" and add the correct path under ~/go/pkg/mod/... to locate that for it.

I couldn't figure out how to let it connect to my server and just autodiscover the protos like grpcurl does. At this point I gave up. I usually just make a main.go somewhere that does cc := grpc.Dial(...); res, err := whatever.FooClient(cc).Method(&whatever.Request{...}); fmt.Println(res, err) when I want to test something, so I doubt I'd integrate this with my workflow anyway.

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Re:Show HN: Fully-featured desktop gRPC/gRPC-Web client by castratikron on Monday November 07, 2022 @10:57PM (#33515721)

No support for server reflection?

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Re:Show HN: Fully-featured desktop gRPC/gRPC-Web client by notmedia on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @03:58AM (#33517289)

Hey! Server reflection is in project backlog :) I'm working on it

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Re:Show HN: Fully-featured desktop gRPC/gRPC-Web client by notmedia on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @03:58AM (#33517286)

You made a great point! I will think about implementing ezy flow)

But right now I will try to explain and help:

Let's say you have src of protos with subfolders which you call subsystem If I understand correctly, subsystem - isolated system (like a service) with own API. If so, then in ezy you should create collection for every subsystem module where you may have root proto file. The second step is include directories - this directories are paths to your directories where gogos's proto files lives.

I hope this helps! If you have any troubles and instered in setup you can open an issue in project repository.

I love critic because without talks we can't understand what the community wants. Thank you for this it really helps!

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