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Hands-On RESTful Web Services with Go - Second Edition
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Hands-On RESTful Web Services with Go - Second Edition

by Naren Yellavula
February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
404 pages
8h 42m
English
Packt Publishing
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Building an RPC client with Go Micro

In Chapter 6, Working with Protocol Buffers and gRPC, where we discussed protocol buffers, we mentioned that a server and client should agree on the same protocol buffer. In the same way, Go Micro expects the service and client to use the same .proto file—in our case, encryption.proto. A client can be another service that is requesting some information.

We can build clients using Go Micro. It includes all the necessary constructs to connect and make RPC calls to a microservice. Our plan is to create a client and ask the service to encrypt and decrypt messages. Those requests will be RPC calls. Let's see the steps for creating and using a Go Micro client, as follows:

  1. Create a new project for the client, ...
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ISBN: 9781838643577