Support gRPC test cases

[LinuxSuRen]

gRPC is a very popular protocol. It would be great if we could have this feature. Please feel free to see also the following ideas if you're interested in it:

• Support all common feature of gRPC
• CLI and server side supports both needed
• VSCode extension support will be optinal
• Have a good compitable with the current YAML specification
• Docuemntation output

Online Meetings

• GLCC API Testing ~ gRPC 课题讨论会-1
• GLCC 活动中 API-Testing 项目的第二次沟通

[LinuxSuRen]

We only accept this proposal from GLCC 2023. Please feel free to see it if you're interested in it. By the way, only students could take it acorrding to the GLCC official rule.

See the details from here.

[kaizhong2021]

I have submitted my application.

[LinuxSuRen]

See also the Twitter thread of this topic.

[LinuxSuRen]

Finally, @Ink-33 will take this issue. Please see the detail from #111

[LinuxSuRen]

hi @Ink-33 , I suggest we take an initial meeting to talk about this proposal. There are some potential outcomes from the meeting.

• A discussed development plan which should contain timeline and keypoints.
• The later meetings arrangment.
• Any others.

Please pick up a time slot in Calendly.

Meeting link: https://meeting.tencent.com/dm/ZPyoVpZUqXni
Meeting record: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1xj411U7Wm/

[Ink-33]

hi @Ink-33 , I suggest we take an initial meeting to talk about this proposal. There are some potential outcomes from the meeting.

• A discussed development plan which should contain timeline and keypoints.
• The later meetings arrangment.
• Any others.

Please pick up a time slot in Calendly.

Thanks. I have picked a proper time slot through the calendly.

[Ink-33]

Milestone:

• Support .proto parsing and gRPC testsuite yaml parsing. (1.5 week)
• Implement dynamic gRPC services request building. (1.5 week)
• Support trigger gRPC testsuite through cli and rpc. (1 week)

[LinuxSuRen]

hi @Ink-33 Please feel free to see GRPC Server Reflection Protocol. In my view, it could help discover the gRPC service.

By the way, it would be more clear if it's confortable for you to put the date on your milestone list.

[LinuxSuRen]

I found another great tool grpcurl. I'm wondering if it's possible to reuse it.

[Ink-33]

hi @Ink-33 Please feel free to see GRPC Server Reflection Protocol. In my view, it could help discover the gRPC service.

By the way, it would be more clear if it's confortable for you to put the date on your milestone list.

I will update it later.

There is something emergency that I have to put off the whole project for about 2 week, so the start time of first step may be set as the middle of this mouth.

[LinuxSuRen]

There is something emergency that I have to put off the whole project for about 2 week, so the start time of first step may be set as the middle of this mouth.

Sure. No problem. I could check the point if there is a clear timeline.

[Ink-33]

I found another great tool grpcurl. I'm wondering if it's possible to reuse it.

I see. That project have done a lot of great work. I will try to reuse it.

[LinuxSuRen]

I find another type of RPC. BRPC was created by Baidu. We could try to support it after GLCC.

[LinuxSuRen]

hi @Ink-33 there are still some work need to do for this issue:

• The unit tests are not enough
• The server side which means the gRPC server
• Document about how to use

[LinuxSuRen]

hi @Ink-33 Congrats! You did it. Thanks for your time on this project. Hopefully you learned something in this summer. And I'm looking forward to having more collaboration in this project or others.

Below are all the relevant pull requests.

https://github.com/LinuxSuRen/api-testing/pulls?q=is%3Apr+label%3Aglcc+is%3Aclosed

https://www.gitlink.org.cn/glcc/2023/result