A rust implementation of [gRPC], a high performance, open source, general
RPC framework that puts mobile and HTTP/2 first.
[`tonic`] is a gRPC over HTTP/2 implementation focused on high performance, interoperability, and flexibility. This library was created to have first class support of async/await and to act as a core building block for production systems written in Rust.
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## Overview
[`tonic`] is composed of three main components the generic gRPC implementation, the high performance HTTP/2
implementation and the codegen powered by [`prost`]. The generic implementation can support any HTTP/2
implementation and any encoding via a set of generic traits. The HTTP/2 implementation is based on [`hyper`]
which is a fast HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 client and server built on top of the robust [`tokio`] stack. The codegen
contains the tools to build clients and servers from [`protobuf`] definitions.
### Features
- Bi-directional streaming
- High performance async io
- Interoperability
- TLS backed via either [`openssl`] or [`rustls`]
- Load balancing
- Custom metadata
- Authentication
## Getting Started
Examples can be found in [`tonic-examples`] and for more complex scenarios [`tonic-interop`]
may be a good resource as it shows examples of many of the gRPC features.
### Examples
#### Client
```rust
pub mod hello_world {
include!(concat!(env!("OUT_DIR"), "/helloworld.rs"));
}
use hello_world::{client::GreeterClient, HelloRequest};
#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box> {
let mut client = GreeterClient::connect("http://[::1]:50051")?;
let request = tonic::Request::new(HelloRequest {
name: "hello".into(),
});
let response = client.say_hello(request).await?;
println!("RESPONSE={:?}", response);
Ok(())
}
```
#### Server
```rust
use tonic::{transport::Server, Request, Response, Status};
pub mod hello_world {
include!(concat!(env!("OUT_DIR"), "/helloworld.rs"));
}
use hello_world::{
server::{Greeter, GreeterServer},
HelloReply, HelloRequest,
};
#[derive(Default)]
pub struct MyGreeter {
data: String,
}
#[tonic::async_trait]
impl Greeter for MyGreeter {
async fn say_hello(
&self,
request: Request,
) -> Result, Status> {
println!("Got a request: {:?}", request);
let string = &self.data;
println!("My data: {:?}", string);
let reply = hello_world::HelloReply {
message: "Zomg, it works!".into(),
};
Ok(Response::new(reply))
}
}
#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box> {
let addr = "[::1]:50051".parse().unwrap();
let greeter = MyGreeter::default();
Server::builder()
.serve(addr, GreeterServer::new(greeter))
.await?;
Ok(())
}
```
## Getting Help
First, see if the answer to your question can be found in the API documentation.
If the answer is not there, there is an active community in
the [Tonic Discord channel][chat]. We would be happy to try to answer your
question. Last, if that doesn't work, try opening an [issue] with the question.
[chat]: https://discord.gg/6yGkFeN
[issue]: https://github.com/hyperium/tonic/issues/new
## Project Layout
- [`tonic`](https://github.com/hyperium/tonic/tree/master/tonic): Generic gRPC and HTTP/2 client/server
implementation.
- [`tonic-build`](https://github.com/hyperium/tonic/tree/master/tonic): [`prost`] based service codegen.
## Contributing
:balloon: Thanks for your help improving the project! We are so happy to have
you! We have a [contributing guide][guide] to help you get involved in the Tracing
project.
[guide]: CONTRIBUTING.md
## License
This project is licensed under the [MIT license](LICENSE).
### Contribution
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted
for inclusion in Tracing by you, shall be licensed as MIT, without any additional
terms or conditions.
[gRPC]: https://grpc.io
[`tonic`]: https://github.com/hyperium/tonic
[`tokio`]: https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio
[`hyper`]: https://github.com/hyperium/hyper
[`prost`]: https://github.com/danburkert/prost
[`protobuf`]: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers
[`rustls`]: https://github.com/ctz/rustls
[`openssl`]: https://www.openssl.org/
[Examples]: https://github.com/hyperium/tonic/tree/master/tonic-examples
[Website]: https://tokio.rs
[Docs]: https://docs.rs/tonic
[Chat]: https://discord.gg/6yGkFeN