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:.