Feature Request : Support for google protobuf

[nesterov-n]

google protocol buffers is popular serialisation method. It would be great to get support of it in Postman app. Example scenario for POST requests with protobuf body: User writes data in protobuf text format. like this:

person {
  name: "John Doe"
  email: "jdoe@example.com"
}

Then user specifies FileDescriptorSet describing binary message format (file itself, or better http link to it). Postman app serialises data in binary format using FileDescriptorSet and performs request.

FileDescriptorSet also can be used for representing response body.

[HenAmar]

+1

[aoborevich]

+1

[Kaysoro]

+1, could be very nice!

[karsep5]

+1

[Lardpower]

Would be great to use protobuf in Postman!

[spaceMan00]

+1

[arlemi]

We've added support for gRPC (in beta) in the latest version of Postman, this includes:

• Protobuf API management
• Unary, Client streaming, Server streaming, and Bidirectional streaming RPCs
• Message authoring powered with code completion and autogeneration
• Metadata, Authentication, and TLS configuration
• Templating using Postman Variables

Let us know what you think!

[arlemi]

From @appurva21 in #5194 :

Hello everyone 👋

We are immensely excited to announce that with the latest release of Postman, you can now test your gRPC APIs! 🎉

Feature Overview

• Protobuf API management
• Unary, Client streaming, Server streaming, and Bidirectional streaming RPCs
• Message authoring powered with code completion and autogeneration
• Metadata, Authentication and TLS configuration
• Templating using Postman Variables

Getting Started

1. Hit the New button in the left sidebar
2. Select gRPC Request
3. Type the address of your gRPC server into the URL bar
4. Select/upload the corresponding Protobuf definition
5. Select your desired service and method
6. Click Invoke

What's Next?

We will be actively working towards integrating it with the rest of Postman's ecosystem to bring in every other feature like Collection integration, documentation, scripting, and more. Apart from that, we understand that managing Protobuf definition is an integral part of developing and maintaining gRPC APIs, therefore we have a few interesting things planned around that for the next year.

gRPC support is still in beta and we will be constantly iterating and improving the experience based on your feedback. Please feel free to file feature requests as new issues and we will be keeping an eye on them.

Lastly, we are thankful to our Postman community for providing us with all the great suggestions here and patiently waiting for this 🙌 !

[Mac351]

Why is this closed? What does gRPC have to do with protobuf? I want to be able to send protobuf requests to any API.

[codenirvana]

@Mac351 Right, gRPC is just a first step to introduce Protocol Buffers in Postman. I understand your use case and I hope support for Protobuf in Postman API will fast track the integration with HTTP.

Reopening this issue.

[anhnmt]

How can I import multiple proto files into postman?

[srkCodes1307]

Any Update? Can I make a Http call with content-type as application/x-protobuf and pass protobuf request in body

[Marto32]

+1 any update on this?

[zzong12]

I want it !!!

[abhivaikar]

Hey @codenirvana, any idea when this will be supported natively by Postman?

[grahambarrgraham]

Postman renders protobuf responses, but doesn't render nested Any types, they just show as encoded strings. This is still the case even if you try and import a FileDescriptorSet containing the nested Any types in to Postman. Is this feature planned?

[lesteryan]

what progress has this issue made now?

[Renat060888]

Hello! The same question :) When will this feature be implemented? Is this in the plans at least? It would be great rather than every time write a script for serialize/deserialize. Thanks a lot!