grpc/go

gRPC in 3 minutes (Go)

PREREQUISITES

• This requires Go 1.4

• Requires that GOPATH is set

  $ go help gopath
  $ # ensure the PATH contains $GOPATH/bin or $GOBIN
  $ export PATH=PATH:<your/gopath/bin>
  

INSTALL

$ export GOPATH=<path/to/your/go/workspace>
$ go install -u github.com/grpc-common/go/greeter_client
$ go install -u github.com/grpc-common/go/greeter_server

TRY IT!

• Run the server

  $ greeter_server &
  

• Run the client

  $ greeter_client
  

OPTIONAL - Rebuilding the generated code

1 First install protoc

• For now, this needs to be installed from source

• This is will change once proto3 is officially released 2 Install the protoc Go plugin.

  $ go get -a github.com/golang/protobuf/protoc-gen-go
  $ # ensure the PATH contains $GOPATH/bin
  $ export PATH=PATH:$GOPATH/bin
  $
  $ # from this dir; invoke protoc
  $ protoc -I ../protos ../protos/helloworld.proto --go_out=plugins=grpc:.