Developing a gRPC Client

Let’s learn how to develop a gRPC client in Go.

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Testing the gRPC server with the client
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This lesson presents the development of the gRPC client based on the api.proto file presented earlier. The main purpose of the client is to test the functionality of the server. However, what is really important is the implementation of three helper functions, each one corresponding to a different RPC call, because these three functions allow us to interact with the gRPC server. The purpose of the main() function of gClient.go is to use these three helper functions.

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So, the code of gClient.go is the following:

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Course Introduction

Introduction to Go

Basic Go Data Types

Composite Data Types

Reflection and Interfaces

Go Packages and Functions

Telling a UNIX System What to Do

Go Concurrency

Building Web Services

Working with TCP/IP and WebSocket

Working with REST APIs

Code Testing and Profiling

Working with gRPC

Go Generics

Conclusion

Appendix A—Go Garbage Collector

Developing a gRPC Client

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