protoc-gen-gofullmethods

protoc-gen-gofullmethods

This is a protoc go plugin to generate constants for all gRPC server methods.

Use case

A use case could be to add some logic for a certain rpc method. For example, adding a condition for a certain rpc method in a gRPC server middleware. See here an example on line 33: example/server/server.go

Usage

Install

$ go get -u github.com/nicovogelaar/protoc-gen-gofullmethods
$ go install github.com/nicovogelaar/protoc-gen-gofullmethods

Generate

Include the --gofullmethods_out= flag to generate the .fullmethods.pb.go file.

$ protoc --go_out=./example --go_opt=paths=source_relative --go-grpc_out=./example --go-grpc_opt=paths=source_relative --gofullmethods_out=./example --gofullmethods_opt=paths=source_relative -I example service.proto

Example

See here an example of the generated file: service_methods.pb.go

package example

const (
	Greeter_SayHello = "/helloworld.Greeter/SayHello"
	Greeter_SayBye   = "/helloworld.Greeter/SayBye"
)

var (
	FullMethods = []string{
		Greeter_SayHello,
		Greeter_SayBye,
	}
)