2020-08-08

Notes

• So, after shopping around, it looks like I can use https://github.com/standy66/purerpc under the hood! The CLI is kinda meh (as is any tool from gRPC, it seems) but the hrpc interface is kinda nice and simple, so I think I will wrap the protoc/protoc plugin interface with a simple argparse entrypoint.
• On first attempt at generation over in @hyperspace-org/rpc, I did run into hypercore-protocol/hyperspace-rpc#3.
• I can use grpcio-tools to get a pure python protoc CLI instead of having to require a system package! This greatly simplifies the installation requirements.

TODO

• Install a local hyperspace daemon and try to write a dead-simple python client script which fires a request at the daemon via a socket and gets a response. There must be some version check or something real simple in this regard. Can use the plain 'ol python -m grpc_tools.protoc --purerpc_out=. --python_out=. -I. schema.proto incantation to get a stub and service file. The generated files need to have async/await bindings and be possible to use trio with ideally.
• If the above works, then we're all good, go on to implement the hrpc client in python. Otherwise, thrash wildly in a swampy marsh of bugs probably...