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Add a client stub implementation #48

Open tchernobog opened 1 day ago

tchernobog commented 1 day ago

To achieve minimum viability as a Google gRPC substitute, grpcxx needs a client stub implementation to accompany its server-only implementation.

It should:

generate the stub code in the .grpcxx.pb.h header
have a base client implementation which uses coroutines

uatuko commented 10 hours ago

Relates to https://github.com/uatuko/grpcxx/discussions/35 and https://github.com/uatuko/grpcxx/issues/38.

tchernobog commented 7 hours ago

Relates to #35 and #38.

For sure #35, not sure #38 is strongly linked.

An independent client implementation could always be used, I don't see it a hard dep for HTTP/3 support. Adding QUIC support to grpcxx shouldn't be extremely hard even right now, the main issue is the need to abstract code which uses TCP connections as QUIC is over UDP by default.

At that point, I would advise also supporting unix sockets for local IPC, since it makes sense to do the work only once.

uatuko commented 7 hours ago

38 is related in the sense there aren't any HTTP/3 gRPC clients at the moment (at least not that I'm aware of), so if we implement HTTP/3 there must be a client to use it with.

Not saying we need to implement an HTTP/3 client in this issue, just wanted to keep related issues linked for future reference.