betandr / grpcdemo

gRPC Python Demo

gRPC Python Demo

Python client-server demo using gRPC and protocol buffers

• Service defined in a helloworld.proto file.
• Server and client code generated with the protocol buffer compiler.
• Simple client and server implemented with Python gRPC API.

Install dependencies

python3 -m venv env
. env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Generate code from the service definition

python -m grpc_tools.protoc \
  -I. \
  --python_out=. \
  --grpc_python_out=. \
  ./helloworld.proto

Start the server

python3 app/server.py

Run the client

python3 app/client.py

Run tests

pip install -r requirements_text.txt
py.test tests/