Mastering Go - Second Edition

The gRPC server

In this subsection, you will learn how to develop a gRPC server in Go. The name of the program will be gServer.go and it is going to be presented in four parts.

The first part of gServer.go is as follows:

package main 
 
import ( 
    "fmt" 
    p "github.com/mactsouk/protobuf" 
    "golang.org/x/net/context" 
    "google.golang.org/grpc" 
    "net" 
) 

As the name of the Go package with the interface definition language is message_service, which is pretty long, I've introduced an alias for it here, which is pretty short and convenient (p).

The golang.org/x/net/context and google.golang.org/grpc packages were downloaded earlier along with the other dependencies of the github.com/golang/protobuf/protoc-gen-go package, which means that you will not need ...