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Re:Show HN: Ezy – open-source gRPC client, alternative to Po... by arein3 on Thursday December 08, 2022 @05:53PM (#33914915)
gRPC has been a pain (customization of the generated clients, automation testing, even usual testing). I haven't heard of Ezy (used BloomRPC, insomnia, and another client, all of them were an incomplete solution). I will be sure to check Ezy next time I have to use gRPC.

Some of the features I couldnt find on the gRPC apps I tried were: 1) the ability to have complete information about the request and the response, and also I couldn't add headers to the grpc request. 2) the ability to automate (run the requests without a GUI), the way newman works for postman.

I just wish gRPC would not be used on any new projects and people would use more sensible solutions.

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Re:Show HN: Ezy – open-source gRPC client, alternative to Po... by notmedia on Friday December 09, 2022 @08:05AM (#33920784)
> the ability to have complete information about the request and the response

Can you describe what information you want to see?

> the ability to automate (run the requests without a GUI)

Yeah, this is my goal - I want to add tests support to ezy with ability to run them on CI/CD

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Re:Show HN: Ezy – open-source gRPC client, alternative to Po... by arein3 on Sunday December 18, 2022 @07:58PM (#34046735)
>Can you describe what information you want to see?

Everything there could be (of course maybe in a separate expander). I needed the request/response headers, but maybe somebody could need something even more up the stack (ex. if the connexion was reused or a new one was created).

Also don't know if this is already implemented, but I think the option to generate a curl command for the request should be possible, since curl supports http2.

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Re:Show HN: Ezy – open-source gRPC client, alternative to Po... by ushakov on Monday December 19, 2022 @09:40AM (#34052535)
For automating gRPC tests you can use Step CI

Disclosure: I'm the author

https://docs.stepci.com/guides/testing-grpc.html

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