Question: Use of Object Literals

[wtatum]

The generated types for messages are classes with a no-args constructor, and settings/getters for each property. In many cases (especially unary request/response operations) this feels really superfluous and adds a lot of cruft to code that could otherwise be inlined. As a new user of GRPC it's not clear to me whether this is an artifact of ts-protoc-gen or it's just representative of the underlying types created in JS.

This can be partially addressed using toObject() but that's only available one way. Am I missing something meant to make this easier?

[wtatum]

I found someone asking basically the same question over on the grpc-node project, where they were told this behavior is determined by the protobuf project, not by any of the protoc plugins.
grpc/grpc-node#1378

Does that sound right?

[wtatum]

Cross posted this to Google Groups forum for Protobuf

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/protobuf

[grant]

I have the same issue. Seems like this project is being forked in some cases and isn't currently active?
Are PRs accepted?

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[entropitor]

It seems that the tutorial uses the "optimal" JS api but if you compile the proto files, then you need to use the getters/setters:

E.g. see https://github.com/grpc/grpc/tree/v1.33.1/examples/node/dynamic_codegen (using normal objects) versus https://github.com/grpc/grpc/tree/v1.33.1/examples/node/static_codegen (using getters / setters)

[entropitor]

If you want to use the former, you can use grpc/grpc-node#1474 to get TS definitions

[RobinKamps]

@entropitor i generated the TS definition with grpc/grpc-node#1474 .
Could you explain, how you use/incorporate the ts definitions with the generated ts code from ts-protoc-gen?

[entropitor]

You can follow the examples on the grpc website. But when using typescript you can e.g. type your functions/services using one of the types that is generated (just add a manually type annotation)

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