Understanding service definitions

You define a service by specifying its methods with the respective parameters and return types. These methods are exposed by the server, which can be called remotely. You defined the EmployeeService definition in the previous subsection, as shown in the next code block:

service EmployeeService {  rpc Create(Employee) returns (EmployeeCreateResponse);
}

Here, Create is a method exposed by the EmployeeService service definition. Messages used in the Create service should also be defined as a part of the service definition. The Create service method is a unary service method because the client sends a single request object and receives a single response object in return from the server.

Let’s dig further into the types of service methods offered by gRPC:

• Unary: We have already discussed the unary service method in the previous example. This would have a one-way response for a single request.
• Server streaming: In these...