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gRPC in 3 minutes (Go)

PREREQUISITES

  • This requires Go 1.4.x
  • 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 install -a github.com/golang/protobuf/protoc-gen-go
    $ # ensure the PATH contains $GOPATH/bin or $GOBIN
    $ export PATH=PATH:<your/gopath/bin>
    $
    $ # from ths dir; invoke protoc
    $ protoc -I ../protos ../protos/helloworld.proto --go_out=plugins=grpc:.