gRPC Swift provides a plugin for the protocol buffer
compiler protoc
to generate classes for clients and services.
The protoc-gen-grpc-swift
plugin can be built by using the Makefile in the
top-level directory:
$ make plugins
The Swift Package Manager may also be invoked directly to build the plugin:
$ swift build --product protoc-gen-grpc-swift
The plugin must be in your PATH
environment variable or specified directly
when invoking protoc
.
The Visibility option determines the access control for generated code.
- Possible values: Public, Internal
- Default value: Internal
The Server option determines whether server code is generated. The
generated server code includes a protocol
which users must implement
to provide the logic for their service.
- Possible values: true, false
- Default value: true
The Client option determines whether client code is generated. The
generated client code includes a protocol
and a class
conforming to that
protocol.
- Possible values: true, false
- Default value: true
The TestClient option determines whether test client code is generated.
This does not include the protocol
generated by the Client option.
- Possible values: true, false
- Default value: false
The FileNaming option determines how generated source files should be named.
- Possible values:
- FullPath: The full path of the input file will be used;
foo/bar/baz.proto
will generatefoo/bar/baz.grpc.proto
- PathToUnderscores: Directories structures are flattened;
foo/bar/baz.proto
will generatefoo_bar_baz.grpc.proto
- DropPath: The path is dropped and only the name of the file is kept;
foo/bar/baz.proto
will generatebaz.grpc.proto
- FullPath: The full path of the input file will be used;
- Default value: FullPath
The ProtoPathModuleMappings option allows module mappings to be specified. See the SwiftProtobuf documentation.
The KeepMethodCasing determines whether the casing of generated function names is kept.
For example, for the following RPC definition:
rpc Foo(FooRequest) returns (FooRequest) {}
Will generate stubs named foo
by default. However, in some cases this is not
desired, and setting KeepMethodCasing=true
will yield stubs named Foo
.
- Possible values: true, false
- Default value: false
The GRPCModuleName option allows the name of the gRPC Swift runtime module to be specified. The value, if not specified, defaults to "GRPC".
Note: most users will not need to use this option. It is intended as a workaround for CocoaPods users who may end up with a transitive dependency on the gRPC core C library whose module name is also "GRPC".
The SwiftProtobufModuleName option allows the name of the SwiftProtobuf runtime module to be specified. The value, if not specified, defaults to "SwiftProtobuf".
*Note: most users will not need to use this option. Introduced to match the option that exists in SwiftProtobuf.
To pass extra parameters to the plugin, use a comma-separated parameter list
separated from the output directory by a colon. Alternatively use the
--grpc-swift_opt
flag.
For example, to generate only client stubs:
protoc <your proto> --grpc-swift_out=Client=true,Server=false:.
Or, in the alternate syntax:
protoc <your proto> --grpc-swift_opt=Client=true,Server=false --grpc-swift_out=.