gRPC Example

This example shows how to run a go-micro v6 service as a standard gRPC-compatible server: reflection is enabled, so grpcurl and other standard gRPC tooling can discover and call it, and the client is a plain google.golang.org/grpc client with no go-micro SDK.

This is the setup behind micro/go-micro#4880.

How it works

go-micro's gRPC server routes every call by parsing the standard gRPC method path (/helloworld.Say/Hello) and dispatches it to the matching go-micro handler. The grpcserver.Reflection() option additionally registers each handler with gRPC's reflection service, so tools can list and describe the service without injecting a raw grpc.Server.

Running

Start the server:

bash

cd examples/grpc
go run .

In another terminal, call it with the standard gRPC client:

bash

cd examples/grpc
go run ./client --name Alice
# Response: Hello Alice

Or with grpcurl:

bash

grpcurl -plaintext localhost:8080 list
# helloworld.Say
grpcurl -plaintext -d '{"name":"World"}' localhost:8080 helloworld.Say.Hello
# { "message": "Hello World" }

Service name

The registry name (helloworld) lives on the gRPC server via server.Name("helloworld"). Pass it there rather than only to micro.NewService("helloworld", ...) — micro.NewService prepends its Name option, which gets discarded when the default server is swapped out.

Regenerating the proto

bash

protoc -I proto \
  --go_out=proto --go_opt=paths=source_relative \
  --micro_out=proto --micro_opt=paths=source_relative \
  --go-grpc_out=proto --go-grpc_opt=paths=source_relative \
  proto/helloworld.proto

protoc-gen-micro must be v6: go install go-micro.dev/v6/cmd/protoc-gen-micro@latest.