new feature: fully automated generation of the gRPC interface

[markdoerr]

I would like to offer my extension, that automates almost the full gRPC interface building,
which can be very tedious, if you have a lot of apps with a lot of models, where you want to have a gRPC interface.

I applied this extension to my LARAsuite repositories gitlab.com/larasuite and it worked very smoothly, saving me a lot of time.
I hope this is useful to you....

See related pull request :

[markdoerr]

I am currently exploring the buf build framework
and am very impressed. I will soon add a link to a fully working example - also using the django-socio-grpc framework.
The beauty of the approach lies in the power of buf :
buf can help to keep track of your gRPC API / .proto files.

Since the desired goal of all gRPC based APIs should be to support as many languages as possible,
buf is a great tool for that: with one configuration (yaml file), one generate a lot of different stubs with github actions or gitlab-ci-cd (or manually). The tooling is pretty amazing.

One could showcase the interoperability of the django-socio-grpc framework and buf by one example/demo in a demo folder.

What do you think ?

[AMontagu]

Hi @markdoerr we planned to work on BUF this summer too. We have a complex automatic API that can be simplified a lot with it but we was missing ressources. We internally meet on the subject on Monday 17th of July.

So we have a big interest on the subject. Mostly with grpc-web. @legau is on the subject. If you can provide something we can look on it and if you want to participate we can work together to make this happen

[markdoerr]

This is a very cool incidence, @AMontagu :)
grpc-web is also the reason, why I looked into BUF.
The project, I was referring to you can find here: LARAsuite/l.

It is a large open source research data management and labautomation suite. It uses the django-socio-grpc a lot (in every app).

The buf api CI/CD I am testing in the lara-django-data app - look into the api folder how it is structured. There are still some weird bugs in the pipeline, which I need to fix, unfortunately.
But I would be also interested to have everything running as github action.

[markdoerr]

Regarding a meeting:
I would be very happy to meet you all. Unfortunately I am on travel on the 17th of July (coming back on the 19th (being in the lab from the 20th of July). We should best arrange a meeting between 20.7-26.7. (please contact me at: mark.doerr at uni-greifswald dot de)

[AMontagu]

We have a some resources for complex API construction in mono (github actions) and multi (gitlab CI) repo. We will happily share them.

Send you an invitation in this timeline.

[AMontagu]

I am closing this as the meeting happen. Please feel free to reopen specific issue