README.md

RpcFrameworkDotNet

This repo compliments the other repo that I created earlier in C++ using grpc as an rpc framework referenced below: https://github.com/jppathak/RpcFramework

This is extending the work to .Net. .NET API for grpc is found to be more clean than C++ version and hence defining a custom serilization/contracts is much easier(as below). This does not require any protobuf binaries. See the packages folder for dependencies.

In production code, we use "Protobuf.Net"(another great repo: https://github.com/mgravell/protobuf-net) as a way to serialize data, which is effectively using "Protobuf", however it does not require custom stub generation.

public static class Serializer<T> where T : IMessage, new()
{
    static public byte[] Serilize(T obj) 
    {
        var data = (obj as IMessage).Data;
        return System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(data);
    }
    public static T Deserilize(byte[] input)
    {
        string temp = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(input);
        var obj = new T();
        (obj as IMessage).Data = temp;
        return obj;
    }
}

public static class ServiceContracts
{
    public static readonly Method<string, string> ProcessRequestString = new Method<string, string>(
           type: MethodType.Unary,
           serviceName: "SimpleGrpcService",
           name: "ProcessStringRequest",
           requestMarshaller: Marshallers.Create(
           serializer: Serializer.Serilize,
           deserializer: Serializer.Deserilize),
           responseMarshaller: Marshallers.Create(
           serializer: Serializer.Serilize,
           deserializer: Serializer.Deserilize));

    public static readonly Method<Request, Response> ProcessRequestViaServerUpdateReported =
                    new Method<Request, Response>(
                        type: MethodType.ServerStreaming,
                        serviceName: "SimpleGrpcService",
                        name: "ProcessRequestViaServerUpdateReported",
                        requestMarshaller: Marshallers.Create(
                            serializer: Serializer<Request>.Serilize,
                            deserializer: Serializer<Request>.Deserilize),
                        responseMarshaller: Marshallers.Create(
                            serializer: Serializer<Response>.Serilize,
                            deserializer: Serializer<Response>.Deserilize));
}