Quick Start

Prerequisites

• Go, should be greater or equal than go1.18.
• tRPC cmdline tools, to generate stub codes from protobuf.

Get Example Code

Example code is part of tRPC-Go repo. Clone and change directory to helloworld.

$ git clone --depth 1 git@github.com:trpc-group/trpc-go.git
$ cd trpc-go/examples/helloworld

Run the Example

1. Compile and execute the server code:

   $ cd server && go run main.go
   

2. From a different terminal, compile and execute the client code:

   $ cd client && go run main.go
   

   You will see Hello world! displayed as a log.

Congratulations! You’ve just run a client-server application with tRPC-Go.

Update protobuf

As you can see, service Greeter are defined in protobuf ./pb/helloworld.proto as following:

service Greeter {
  rpc Hello (HelloRequest) returns (HelloReply) {}
}

message HelloRequest {
  string msg = 1;
}

message HelloReply {
  string msg = 1;
}

It has only one method Hello, which takes HelloRequest as parameter and returns HelloReply.

Now, add a new method HelloAgain, with the same request and response:

service Greeter {
  rpc Hello (HelloRequest) returns (HelloReply) {}
  rpc HelloAgain (HelloRequest) returns (HelloReply) {}
}


message HelloRequest {
  string msg = 1;
}

message HelloReply {
  string msg = 1;
}

Regenerate tRPC code by $ make in ./pb directory. The Makefile calls trpc which should be installed by prerequisites.

Update and Run Server and Client

At server side server/main.go, add codes to implement HelloAgain:

func (g Greeter) HelloAgain(ctx context.Context, req *pb.HelloRequest) (*pb.HelloReply, error) {
	log.Infof("got HelloAgain request: %s", req.Msg)
	return &pb.HelloReply{Msg: "Hello " + req.Msg + " again!"}, nil
}

At client side client/main.go, add codes to call HelloAgain:

	rsp, err = c.HelloAgain(context.Background(), &pb.HelloRequest{Msg: "world"})
	if err != nil {
		log.Error(err)
	}
	log.Info(rsp.Msg)

Follow the Run the Example section to re-run your example and you will see Hello world again! in client log.

What’s Next

• Learn how tRPC works in What is tRPC.
• Read basics tutorial to get deeper into tRPC-Go.
• Explore the API reference.