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.Go Programming Blueprints

You're reading from   .Go Programming Blueprints Build real-world, production-ready solutions in Go using cutting-edge technology and techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786468949
Length 394 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Mat Ryer Mat Ryer
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chat Application with Web Sockets 2. Adding User Accounts FREE CHAPTER 3. Three Ways to Implement Profile Pictures 4. Command-Line Tools to Find Domain Names 5. Building Distributed Systems and Working with Flexible Data 6. Exposing Data and Functionality through a RESTful Data Web Service API 7. Random Recommendations Web Service 8. Filesystem Backup 9. Building a Q&A Application for Google App Engine 10. Micro-services in Go with the Go kit Framework 11. Deploying Go Applications Using Docker Appendix. Good Practices for a Stable Go Environment

Building a gRPC client

Unlike JSON/HTTP services, gRPC services aren't easy for humans to interact with. They're really intended as machine-to-machine protocols, and so we must write a program if we wish to use them.

To help us do this, we are first going to add a new package inside our vault service called vault/client/grpc. It will, given a gRPC client connection object that we get from Google's grpc package, provide an object that performs the appropriate calls, encoding and decoding, for us, all hidden behind our own vault.Service interface. So, we will be able to use the object as though it is just another implementation of our interface.

Create new folders inside vault so that you have the path of vault/client/grpc. You can imagine adding other clients if you so wish, so this seems a good pattern to establish.

Add the following code to a new client.go file:

func New(conn *grpc.ClientConn) vault.Service { 
  var hashEndpoint = grpctransport.NewClient( 
    conn, "Vault...
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