gRPC-rs

gRPC-rs is a Rust wrapper of gRPC Core. gRPC is a high performance, open source universal RPC framework that puts mobile and HTTP/2 first.

Status

This project is still under development. The following features with the check marks are supported:

• Basic asynchronous unary/steaming call
• SSL
• Generic call
• Connection level compression
• Interoperability test
• QPS benchmark
• Custom metadata
• Health check
• Reflection
• Authentication
• Load balance

Prerequisites

• CMake >= 3.8.0
• Go (to build ssl support) >=1.7
• Rust >= 1.19.0

For Linux and MacOS, you also need to install gcc (or clang) too.

For Windows, you also need to install following software:

• Active State Perl
• yasm
• Visual Studio 2015+

Build

$ cargo build

Usage

To generate the sources from proto files:

1. Install the protobuf compiler:

$ cargo install protobuf

2. Install the gRPC compiler:

$ cargo install grpcio-compiler

3. Generate the sources:

$ protoc --rust_out=. --grpc_out=. --plugin=protoc-gen-grpc=`which grpc_rust_plugin` example.proto

To include this project as a dependency:

[dependencies]
grpcio = "0.1"

Performance

See benchmark to find out how to run a benchmark by yourself.