protoc-gen-python-grpc

This is a drop-in replacement for the same name protoc plugin re-written in Golang.

Golang-written programs are easy to compile to any supported platform, easy to maintain and better suite the nowadays requirements.

Input and output

Input is exactly the same as any other protoc plugin.

Output is exactly the same as the good old protoc-gen-python-grpc provides.

Please rise the issue in case of any difference found in these plugins output.

How it works

Install

go install github.com/Djarvur/protoc-gen-python-grpc/cmd/protoc-gen-python-grpc@latest

Make sure your protoc/buf compiler can see the protoc-gen-python-grpc in the path.

Run

Exactly the same as any other protoc plugin.

Parameters

protoc plugin to generate Python gRPC code

Usage:
  protoc-gen-python-grpc [flags]

Flags:
  -h, --help                     help for protoc-gen-python-grpc
      --suffix string            generated file(s) name suffix (default "_pb2_grpc.py")
      --template text/template   template to be used (default EMBEDDED)

Generic template support

There is the embedded template for the _pb2_grpc.py files in the program.

Of course, you can provide your own in Go text/template format utilising the following placeholders:

For each file:

• {{.Name}} - name of the source file as it is provided by protoc/buf
• {{.Package}} - proto package name
• {{.Services}} - list of the services defined in the proto file (see below)

For each service:

• {{.Name}} - name of the service
• {{.Comment}} - service-related comment, might be multi-line
• {{.Methods}} - list of the methods defined for this service in proto file (see below)

For each method:

• {{.Name}} - name of the method
• {{.Comment}} - method-related comment, might be multi-line
• {{.Request}} - name of the method request message
• {{.Response}} - name of the method response message
• {{.ClientStreaming}} - boolean indicates is this method client-streaming
• {{.ServerStreaming}} - boolean indicates is this method server-streaming

Also, the following functions are available to be used as template pipelines:

• {{trimSuffix separator value}} - returns a substring with the after-the-last-separator part removed
• {{baseName separator value}} - returns a substring after-the-last-separator
• {{replace from to value}} - returns a string with all the occurrences of from replaced to to
• {{split separator value}} - splitting value by separator and returns a list of substrings
• {{join separator ...values}} - joining a values list to one string with values divided by separator

See embedded template for example.

Limitations and caveats

This program based on the github.com/pseudomuto/protokit package, which is a bit outdated and based on the github.com/golang/protobuf package which is deprecated. Still works though.